The posters in this body of work often focus on the right’s efforts to remake our country into a decentralized union with limited government interference. Like the right, the left is not immune to pressures to shape political and social reform from donors, ideologues, and their bases. Yet, the Republican and Democrat governing strategies are quite different.
In 1960, historian and political scientist Clinton Rossiter began his book, Parties and Politics in America, by stating, “No America without democracy, no democracy without politics, no parties without compromise and moderation.” In its move to the right, the GOP has refused bipartisan efforts to pass legislation. Instead, it creates cultural wedge issues to inflame its base. Its focus is winning elections, not governing.
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