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Joe Biden served as president of the United States from 2021 to 2025, vice president from 2009 to 2017, and in the United States Senate from 1973 until 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he made his second presidential run in 2008, later being announced as Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's running mate in 2008.
In the 2024 United States presidential election, Trump won 56% of voters without a college degree, compared to 42% of voters with a college degree. [126] Long-term shifts in American conservative thinking following the election of Trump have been described as a "new fusionism" of traditional conservative ideology and right-wing populist themes. [2]
The Populist Right are highly conservative anti-immigrant voters that oppose the role of government and big businesses in American society. They make up 11% of the public and 23% of the Republican coalition. 97% of the Populist Right voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, and 85% claim that he won the election.
President Trump's argument that the CSR payments were a "bailout" for insurance companies and therefore should be stopped, actually results in the government paying more to insurance companies ($200B over a decade) due to increases in the premium tax credit subsidies. Journalist Sarah Kliff described Trump's argument as "completely incoherent."
The 2016 election marked the beginning of the trend of returning to protectionism, an ideology incorporated into Republican president Donald Trump's platform. [132] [133] During his presidency, Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, initiated a trade war with China, and negotiated the USMCA as a successor to NAFTA.
November: Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, and Democrats retain control of the house and take control of the Senate. 2021. January: The January 6 attack on the Capital occurs, which saw right-wing extremists storm the capital building in support of Donald Trump. 2022
Trumpism has been described as right-wing authoritarian populist, [79] and is broadly seen among scholars as posing an existential threat to American democracy. [80] His presidency sparked renewed focus and research on restraining presidential power and the threats of a criminal presidency that had died down since the Nixon administration. [81]
Vice President under Donald Trump, governor of Indiana, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana [125] [110] Senator Rand Paul: 1963– U.S. Senator from Kentucky, libertarian-leaning conservative, 2016 GOP presidential candidate and son of Ron Paul [126] Governor Sarah Palin: 1964–