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On Aug. 19, 2022, we received mail from readers who asked about a rumor that said an Alabama Republican group apologized after posting a picture on Facebook that showed the GOP elephant with Ku ...
This political cartoon by Thomas Nast, taken from a 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly, was an early use of the elephant and the donkey to sybolize the Republican and Democratic parties. Uncle Sam ...
In March of 1877, after Republican Rutherford B. Hayes’ controversial victory, a Nast cartoon showed an injured elephant (“Republican Party”) kneeling at a tombstone labeled “Democratic ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The MAGA controlled GOP elephant is demonstrating it needs a check-up with Dr. Dolittle to have its blood pressure lowered and be de-tusked. After long casting itself as pro-law ...
The Lawrence County Republican Party posted an image on Facebook of the familiar GOP elephant, but the white spaces between the cartoon elephant’s legs look like members of the KKK in hoods.
In 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly. In 1916, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected and Republican ...
In the 1870s, political cartoonist Thomas Nast popularized the Democratic donkey in a series of popular cartoons. Nast depicted the donkey in several works, which started as his dislike for the ...
The GOP elephant appears in all manner of extremis and peril: a raging toddler ... Cartoons were drawn by Nick Anderson, Bill Bramhall, Dana Summers, Drew Sheneman, ...
The Republican Party has been known as the GOP since the late nineteenth ... Although there had been earlier symbolic representations of Republicans as an elephant, this cartoon brought it to ...
Former GOP Gov. Nikki Haley launched her 2024 presidential campaign with a call for a new generation of leadership while ignoring the biggest elephant in the room ...
In 1874, the New York Herald loudly opposed the possibility of Ulysses S. Grant running for a third presidential term and cried Caesarism.Nast, a life-long Republican who’d become frustrated ...
The GOP elephant appears in all manner of extremis and peril: a raging toddler ... Cartoons were drawn by Nick Anderson, Bill Bramhall, Dana Summers, Drew Sheneman, ...