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The left–right political spectrum is a system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties, with emphasis placed upon issues of social equality and social hierarchy. In addition to positions on the left and on the right, there are centrist and moderate positions, which are not strongly aligned with either end of the spectrum.
The 2016 Republican Party Platform declares: "We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state. We further recognize the historic significance of the 2012 local referendum in which a 54 percent majority voted to end Puerto Rico's current status as a U.S. territory, and 61 ...
The Republican Party's right-wing populist movements emerged in concurrence with a global increase in populist movements in the 2010s and 2020s, [234] [237] coupled with entrenchment and increased partisanship within the party since 2010. [287] This included the rise of the Tea Party movement, which has also been described as far-right. [288]
Trump registered as a Republican in Manhattan in 1987; since that time, he has changed his party affiliation five times. In 1999, he changed his party affiliation to the Independence Party of New York. In August 2001, Trump changed his party affiliation to Democratic. In September 2009, he changed his party affiliation back to the Republican Party.
He places democratic progressivism in the lower left, plutocratic nationalism in the lower right, republican constitutionalism in the upper right, and libertarian individualism in the upper left. The political left is therefore distinguished by its rejection of archy, while the political right is distinguished by its acceptance of archy.
Of the 10 House members from the GOP who voted to impeach Trump, only two managed to fend off primary challenges from the right. Republican leadership in the House has rejected the congressional ...
Right-wing politics are considered the counterpart to left-wing politics, and the left–right political spectrum is the most common political spectrum. [16] The right includes social conservatives and fiscal conservatives , [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] as well as right-libertarians .
And Republicans have been instrumental in utilizing the vast incentives for renewable energy from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which have disproportionately benefited Republican states.