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What does the donkey represent in the Democratic party and the elephant in the republican party?

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Andrew Jackson. The origins of the Democratic donkey can be traced to the 1828 presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson. During that race, opponents of Jackson called him a jack@ss. Democrats then embraced the symbol, taking pride in their political opponents thinking that they're jack@sses. The mentality is that if your opponents are deriding you, then you know you're doing something right. In the 1870s, influential political cartoonist Thomas Nast helped popularize the donkey as a symbol for the entire Democratic Party.

  • yodi
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    hard working critters both.

  • 2 years ago

    Took me ten seconds to find this site.

    https://crystalbridges.org/blog/of-donkeys-and-ele...

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    The elephant represents are large amount of knowledge while the donkey represents that all democrats are assholes

    Source(s): Don't take that literally J O K I N G
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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Donkeys are hard workers, elephants pass the most crap.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    The j@ck@***....are Democrats.

    The elephant is a happy spiritual animal and peaceful.

    Sadly the parties flipped since the 1800s.

    Lincoln was a bad man who broke the constitution to wage war on seceded states.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    boflzgvo

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    The donkey is the dumbest mammal on the planet. Which fits the Democrat party perfectly.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Because Democrats are jackasses

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    SHE MAKES IT OBVIOUS FOR ME

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