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Democrats support a more progressive tax structure to provide more services and reduce economic inequality by making sure that the wealthiest Americans pay the highest tax rate. [20] [failed verification] They also support more government spending on social services while spending less on the military.
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been the Republican Party; which have since dominated American politics. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828.
The Democratic Party also has considerable support in the small yet growing Asian American population. The Asian American population had been a stronghold of the Republican Party until the United States presidential election of 1992 in which George H. W. Bush won 55% of the Asian American vote, compared to Bill Clinton winning 31% and Ross Perot winning 15%.
Democrats have the most pessimistic view of their party's future recorded in eight years after President-elect Trump won the 2024 presidential election, a new Pew Research survey shows.
This candidate switch revitalized Democrats: Harris performed far better in the polls than Biden did. As of Oct. 28, national polls show Harris and Trump in a dead heat to win the popular vote.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a top surrogate for President Biden, speaks with voters during a stop at a highway rest area in Hooksett, New Hampshire, on July 8, 2024.
The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the U.S. Founded as the Democratic Party in 1828 by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, [56] it is the oldest extant voter-based political party in the world. [57] [58] Since 1912, the Democratic Party has positioned itself as the liberal party on domestic issues.
Inclusive democracy is a political theory and political project that aims for direct democracy in all fields of social life: political democracy in the form of face-to-face assemblies which are confederated, economic democracy in a stateless, moneyless and marketless economy, democracy in the social realm, i.e. self-management in places of work ...