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Republican Party | |
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| Abbreviation | GOP |
| Chairperson | Ronna McDaniel |
| Founded | March 20, 1854 |
| Membership (2021) | 35,732,180 |
| Political orientation | Neoconservatism Neoliberalism Paleoconservatism Factions: Neo-fascism Trumpism Libertarianism |
| Political position | Right-wing to Far-right |
| Website | |
| www.gop.com | |
The Republican Party, nicknamed the "Grand Old Party" (GOP) is a far-right political party in the United States. It is one of the two ruling parties in the government of the United States of America, the other being the Democratic Party. Together they are both halves of the United States Corporate duopoly.
History[edit | edit source]
Founding and early years (1854–1865)[edit | edit source]
The Republican Party was founded on March 20, 1854 as a coalition of the industrial bourgeoisie in the north-eastern states, advocating for an end to the political power of the slave owning oligarchy in the south. The victory of the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, in the 1860 election would lead to the secession of the slave-holding states and the beginning of the Statesian Civil War, lasting from 1861 to 1865, ending in a victory for the Union and the elimination of chattel slavery in the US.[1]
Post-Civil War to Civil Rights (1865–1964)[edit | edit source]
"Southern Strategy" and shift further right (1964–2000)[edit | edit source]
Twenty-first century (2000–present)[edit | edit source]
In power[edit | edit source]
The Republican Party was in power from 1861 to 1885 (Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur), from 1889 to 1893 (President Benjamin Harrison), from 1897 to 1913 (Presidents William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft), from 1921 to 1933 (Presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover), from 1953 to 1961 (President Dwight D. Eisenhower), and from 1969 to 1977 (Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford).[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 V. V. Shimanovskii (1979). The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: 'Republican Party'.