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Post-war examples include: 1957 West German federal election: The All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights lost all 27 seats. 2002 German federal election: The Party of Democratic Socialism went from 36 seats to just 2 (both directly-elected). 2013 German federal election: The Free Democratic Party lost all 93 seats.
The second movement was conservative Whiggism. Examples of conservative Whigs include Cadwallader Colden, the De Lancey family of New York, and Richard Bland. Whig ideas dominated colonial politics, and Whig philosophers, such as John Locke (1632–1704) and other apologists of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, were widely read.
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
Seeking a more positive definition, the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, defines conservatism as "the political philosophy that sovereignty resides in the person.
According to conservative academic Sean Speer, some of the most important developments within the 21st century American conservative movement include the rise of Donald Trump and right-wing populism more broadly, an emerging movement within conservatism that is opposed to both post-Cold War neoliberalism and liberalism more broadly, [123] a ...
For my fellow Democrats, the stages of electoral grief have begun. First, the pulverizing shock. Then, the deep confusion. Finally, the burning questions, spreading across cable news green rooms ...
Scholars have tried to define conservatism as a set of beliefs or principles. Political scientist Andrew Heywood argues that the five central beliefs of conservatism are tradition, human imperfection, organic society, authority/hierarchy, and property. [18] Historian Russell Kirk developed five canons of conservatism in The Conservative Mind ...
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson won 3% of the national vote in the 2016 presidential election. While we'll never know if Donald Trump would have lost if it had been a two-person race, an exit ...