Republican Party
Lincoln's political home
The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States, founded in 1854 in opposition to slavery's expansion.
Also called the GOP (Grand Old Party), it generally advocates for limited government, lower taxes, free markets, and traditional social values.
Its symbol is the elephant.
She's been a registered Republican since college.
Republican Party acronym
- RNCGOP's governing body
- primaryChief in importance
- caucusParty selection meeting
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
delegate · supermajority · filibuster · gerrymandering · midterms · grassroots · PAC · donor
Midwestern state capital
- ReaganAmerican presidential surname
- Nixon37th U.S. president
- BushAmerican political surname
- TrumpAmerican political surname
Eisenhower · Pence · McConnell · Cheney · McCain · Romney · Gingrich · Goldwater
Tusked gray giant
Preference for existing institutions
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- pro-lifeAgainst elective pregnancy termination
traditionalism · individualism · patriotism · nationalism · anti-communism · Reaganomics · neoconservatism · supply-side
Opposition to collective ownership
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- gun-rightsWeapon ownership advocacy
- originalismInterpreting by founding-era meaning
GOP
Republican Party acronym
convention · delegate · supermajority · filibuster · gerrymandering · midterms · grassroots · PAC · donor · campaign
Lincoln
Midwestern state capital
Eisenhower · Trump · Pence · McConnell · Cheney · McCain · Romney · Gingrich · Goldwater · Coolidge
elephant
Tusked gray giant
conservatism
Preference for existing institutions
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
pro-life · traditionalism · individualism · patriotism · nationalism · anti-communism · Reaganomics · neoconservatism · supply-side · federalism
anti-socialism
Opposition to collective ownership
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- gun-rightsWeapon ownership advocacy
- originalismInterpreting by founding-era meaning
- Political PartiesLabour, GOP, Democrats, BNP, Sinn Fein
- Presidential Electionsballot, ballot box, electoral votes, popular vote, voter turnout
- 1980s AmericaRonald Reagan, Reagan, Iran-Contra, Contras, Sandinistas
- Eisenhower EraDwight Eisenhower, Ike, Richard Nixon, Nixon, farewell address
- Political Groupsfaction, caucus, wing, GOP, clique
- Massachusetts PoliticsElizabeth Warren, Mitt Romney, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, JFK
Republican PartyDemocratic Party
Liberal American political organization
Democrats · DNC · Democrat · blue states · progressives
Republican Partyleftism
Politics favoring redistribution, equality
liberalism · progressivism · democratic socialism · socialism · left-wing politics
Republican Partybig government
Expansive, powerful state apparatus
statism · centralized government · welfare state · interventionism · collectivism