New Populist Party of MEC

== Background ==
The New Populist Party was founded on January 22, 2019 by former Republican Representative Irishpennsylvanian. It is a centrist party dedicated to economic improvement, worker's rights, and traditional values.
== History ==
In his entire MEC career up until this point, former Rep. Irishpennsylvanian was a Republican. However, he was always a centrist and disagreed with the Republican Party on several occasions. 
He began to become dissatisfied with the party in mid-to-late 2018, when the party first tried to merge with the Democratic Party. After this plan fell apart, the GOP next began re-writing the party platform, making the party lurch to the left on social issues. Irish vehemently opposed this, being a staunch social conservative. 
To make things worse, in the Season 19 Presidential Election, Irish endorsed and strongly campaigned for Adam Evans, the independent incumbent. The Republican nominee was Ryan Servis, and the GOP strongly backed him, and repeatedly attacked Evans in one of the nastiest elections in MEC History. Because Irish supported Evans over Servis, the GOP turned their back on him. He was criticized, attacked, and kicked from the GOP chat along with the few other Republicans who backed Evans. Matt Sorrells, the GOP chairman, also told the chat not to add "those idiots back."
This was the final straw for Irish. After the election, he considered becoming an independent, and possibly even a Democrat. However, he was inspired to form a new party, one focused on families, workers, and American values. This is what he believe both parties could have been, but neither actually was. 
== Formation ==
On January 22, 2019, Irish revealed his new party to the public. The name he chose was "New Populist Party," as this was a party that was focused on the people. 
A few days later, the party bought the Jewelcor Building in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania as it's National Headquarters.
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