John Tyler Stays Democrat

John Tyler is the first president to become so after the death of his predecessor, William Henry Harrison. He also has the ignominy of being the only president kicked out of his own party, was perceived as a Whig In Name Only and his greatest ambition of Manifest Destiny was taken by James K Polk. But what if he wasn't a WINO, but remained part of his old Democrat party for whatever reason? Let's just say that the presidencies stay constant up until Harrison, who dies and someone else becomes 10th president(Daniel Webster perhaps?). Might Tyler be able to become president in his own right, even taking Polk's position in history? If not, what kind of political career might he have? Besides the obvious of Harrison's successor, how might this change things? Might Tyler break out of the obscurity he languishes in IOTL?
 
Tyler would probably call himself a (Jeffersonian) Republican, not a Democrat. He adhered to the Whigs in the late 1830's and early 1840's because the party was formed in opposition to the "executive tyranny" of Jackson and Van Buren and was therefore "republican." He could in good faith share a ticket with Harrison because he honestly didn't think that Harrison supported "neo-Federalist" measures like the National Bank or a protective tariff. Eventually, once the Whigs rallied behind Clay's nationalistic economic policies, he moved closer to the Democrats, but would probably agree with what Calhoun wrote in 1838: "In this connection I must say I object to the name of democrat as applied to us or our party. It has been more particularly appropriated to those who have adhered to the administration while we have assumed the name of State rights and Republican party. In truth the word democrat better applies to the north than the South and as usually understood means those who are in favour of the government of the absolute numerical majority to which I am utterly opposed and the prevalence of which would destroy our system and destroy the South..." https://archive.org/stream/correspondenceof00calhrich#page/398
 
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