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Norris in Nebraska, Senator Bronson M. Most Democrats doggedly opposed Reagan's efforts to support the contra guerrillas against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua and to support the dictatorial governments of Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador against communist guerrilla movements. Washington in the early 20th century were prominent Republican spokesmen.

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Hours after the attack ended, of House Republicans and 8 of 51 Senate Republicans voted to overturn Trump's election loss. Roosevelt's New Deal coalition controlled American politics for most of the next three decades, an exception being the presidency of Republican Dwight Eisenhower from to The Democrats usually lost, but won in and Potomac Books, Inc.

March 8, In a shift over a half-century, the party base has been transplanted from the industrial Northeast and urban centers to become rooted in the South and West, in towns and rural areas. Deportations, tariffs, Jan. Retrieved September 21, They add: "The Democratic party, nationally, moved from left-center toward the center in the s and s, then moved further toward the right-center in the s and s".

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Politico Magazine. Clinton years: — [ edit ]. Reagan wanted fewer laws to affect the economy, and wanted the military to be stronger. During the presidential election, the Republicans also gained significant support in the Midwest. Sandy ; Brewer, Mark D. Reagan and George H. Bush , son of George H. Taft and Arthur Vandenberg , strongly opposed these moves as unwise for risking a war with Germany.

Eisenhower did not try to roll back the New Deal, but he did expand the Social Security system and built the Interstate Highway System. ISSN University of Illinois Press. To circumvent the local Republican Party apparatus mostly controlled by Taft supporters, the Eisenhower forces created a nationwide network of grass-roots clubs, "Citizens for Eisenhower".

October 9, Archived from the original on May 17, Bahr ; Bruce A. Truman then attacked the Republican "Do-Nothing Congress" as a whipping boy for all of the nation's problems. As Haynes Johnson , one of his harshest critics admitted, "his greatest service was in restoring the respect of Americans for themselves and their own government after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate, the frustration of the Iran hostage crisis and a succession of seemingly failed presidencies".