Time magazine ’s new cover might make some Democrats cry ― but not without a laugh. In an issue dated June 9, a donkey is ...

Whoever first decided to use a donkey to represent the Democratic Party was a prophetic genius because the entire party has been taken over by loathsome, dangerous, jackasses. These people ...

When analysts said the Democrats needed a rebrand after the 2024 electoral beat-down, I'm not sure this is what they had in mind. Just after noon ET on Wednesday, the Democratic Party dropped its ...

Composite image featuring David Hogg and the Democratic Party donkey emblem. Photo-illustration by Newsweek/AP/Getty Postelection Postmortems. Many postmortems of Kamala Harris' campaign cited its ...

It turns out these animals have been patriotic since the 19th century. The Democratic donkey's origin is linked to the 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson.Before Jackson was elected as America's ...

It turns out these animals have been patriotic since the 19th century. The Democratic donkey's origin is linked to the 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson.Before Jackson was elected as America's ...

Nast depicted the donkey in several works, which started as his dislike for the democrats. The Republican elephant also owes its rise to Thomas Nast, who used it in an 1874 cartoon published in Harper ...

The symbols tied to the Republican and Democratic parties (the elephant and donkey) have actually been around for more than 100 years. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World.

The donkey was a stand-in for “Copperhead Democrats” (the Northern Democrats that opposed the Civil War); the lion represented Edwin M. Stanton, Abraham Lincoln’s recently deceased Secretary ...