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The Democratic Party represents liberals in the United States, with 50% of Democrats identifying as liberal, compared to only 4% of Republicans. [108] As of 2022, Democratic leaning voters are more likely than Republicans to prioritize the issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change , race, and poverty. [ 109 ]
Democrats believe that the government should protect the environment and have a history of environmentalism. [citation needed] In more recent years, this stance has had as its emphasis alternative energy generation as the basis for an improved economy, greater national security, and general environmental benefits. [35]
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
MAGA Republicans are generally more isolationist, skeptical of international organizations like the United Nations, and less interested in promoting American values overseas.
The political, economic, sociological and ideological differences between the two parties — encompassing not just Democrat vs. Republican but Globalist vs. Populist or Socialist vs. Capitalist ...
Like the Republican Party, the Democratic Party has taken widely varying views on international trade throughout its history. The Democratic Party has usually been more supportive of free trade than the Republican Party. The Democrats dominated the Second Party System and set low tariffs designed to pay for the government but not protect ...
Republicans opted not to vote on a lame duck Democratic president’s nominee to the Supreme Court, betting on the chance to confirm a Republican nominee instead. Now, it’s more than a gamble ...
The Republican Party, known retrospectively as the Democratic-Republican Party (also referred to by historians as the Jeffersonian Republican Party) [a], was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s.