See Dana Milbank in The Washington Post, “ The media treats Biden as badly as - or worse than - Trump.
Rather, they are devoting most of their energy to criticizing the only major party in America that is bothering to offer solutions. And I mean that in the most literal sense possible.Ī rational observer of the American political scene would reasonably expect that the media would be highly critical of Republican nihilism. ” So, what does “GOP” stand for? Nothing. Per Professor Richardson, “ Rather than advancing any sort of a positive program, Republican Senators will be focusing on culture wars. The absence of a Republican political agenda will reprise their performance in 2020, when the GOP failed to release a platform for the presidential election. She reports that Senate Republicans will not adopt a platform for the 2022 or 2024 election cycles. THOUGH THE SDSAB DOES ITS BEST, THESE COLUMNS ARE EDITED BY ED ZOTTI, NOT CECIL, SO ACCURACYWISE YOU'D BETTER KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED.Professor Heather Cox Richardson’s December 3rd essay highlights a disturbing truth that explains much about our nation’s current difficulties. Send questions to Cecil via REPORTS ARE WRITTEN BY THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD, CECIL'S ONLINE AUXILIARY. SDStaff Ian, Straight Dope Science Advisory Board In other words, both animals were chosen for their negative qualities, such as stubbornness and willy-nilly destruction, and then adopted by the parties for their positive attributes, and neither party has been stubborn or destructive ever since. However, the donkey image was not popularized until the ubiquitous Nast adopted it, first depicting the party as a kicking donkey, attacking Lincoln’s secretary of war Edwin Stanton even after his death in an 1870 cartoon for Harper’s Weekly. After Jackson retired, he was still looked at as a party leader, even though the party refused to be led, and the 1837 cartoon “A Modern Baalim and his Ass” showed him leadingĪ donkey which refused to follow. Well known as stubborn, however, Jackson decided to co-opt the mascot, and used it to his own advantage. The donkey predated Nast by three decades, when it was used during Andrew Jackson’s campaign, initially by his opponents, calling him a ‘jackass’ for his populist policies. This was Nast’s take on the Democrats’ view of Grant as Caesar, and their feeling that they had an obligation to play Brutus beforehe let the power of his office corrupt him. Interestingly, the elephant was running away from the already established Democratic donkey, dressed in a lion’s skin. The cartoon, entitled “The Third Term Panic,” depicted the Republican vote as an elephant running inexorably into a tar pit of inflation and chaos. Thomas Nast, the most popular and influential cartoonist of the time, took the opportunity to combine the two in a cartoon for The New Yorker magazine, representing the Republicans as elephants, docile but unmoveable when calm, unstoppable and destructive when excited. As the rumors were surfacing, there was also a contemporary urban legend that several animals had escaped from the New York Zoo. Grant would run for an unprecedented third term. Now firmlyentrenched in the federal government, they were ironically dubbed the “Gallant Old Party,” which soon became the “Grand Old Party,” which was soon shortened to the familiar acronym “GOP.” After the Civil War, the upstart Republicans were perceived as the party that won the war. They decided to call themselves Republicans because they felt their ideals were very similar to Jefferson’s Democratic-Republican party. The Republican Party started in the 1850’s, formed from a split in the Democratic party, whose members, primarily abolitionists, felt the Democrats were no longer representing their interests. Dear Straight Dope: What does GOP stand for and how did it start? Why are Republicans represented as elephants and Democrats asdonkeys? Jerry J.
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