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What is the political symbolism behind the donkey and the elephant?

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Jamir Kuhn
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2020-08-28 17:03:56
2020-08-28 17:03:56

The Democratic Party’s donkey can be traced back to the 1828 presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson, whose opponents referred to him as a “jackass.” Jackson embraced the image and featured the donkey on his campaign posters. Years later, a political cartoonist named Thomas Nast helped popularize the donkey as a symbol for the whole Democratic Party.

Nast was also responsible for promoting the elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party. He first used it in an 1874 drawing titled “The Third-Term Panic” featuring an elephant labeled “The Republican vote.” He continued to use the elephant as a symbol for the party, and other cartoonists followed suit, cementing the association.

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2020-09-04 08:04:29
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2020-09-03 13:56:56
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Democrats are donkeys because they are all jack asses

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Anonymous
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2020-09-03 13:32:34
2020-09-03 13:32:34

Niger

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2020-09-04 00:08:11
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I need to know minion to troll people

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2020-09-03 18:45:15
2020-09-03 18:45:15

Before you go

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Anonymous
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2020-09-03 10:37:10
2020-09-03 10:37:10

The elephant's symbolism is in Africa. And the donkey's symbolism is in Ancient Greece.

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2020-09-03 10:10:14
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good

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2020-09-03 08:56:43
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民主党和共和党

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2020-09-02 21:19:21
2020-09-02 21:19:21

Clergy

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2020-09-02 19:11:29
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Three phases of recruitment include:

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2020-09-02 19:09:00
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Three phases of recruitment include:

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Elephant = Republican Political Party Donkey = Democratic Political Party

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The history of the Donkey is it represents the Democratic political party and the Elephant represents the Rebublican political party

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A donkey and an elephant are current symbols. Donkey for Democrats; Elephant for the Republicans.

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Democrats- Donkey Republicans- Elephant

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The elephant and donkey are symbols of the Republican and Democratic political parties, respectively. The Democratic donkey was first used as a negative comparison against the party, but Democrats used the animal as a strong-willed creature. The Republican elephant is the product of a political cartoon from the 1800s.


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