The months-long frenzy surrounding the 2024 U.S. presidential election both masked and underscored the presence of a very ...

Origins: The elephant became associated with the Republican Party also thanks to Thomas Nast. In the same 1874 cartoon mentioned above, Nast depicted an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote ...

Since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Republican Party emerged in 1854 from the embers of the anti-slavery movement and the ashes of the Whigs.

As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant ... But to Republican opponents, he was "jackass" - which had more or less the same meaning then as it does now.