Democracy & Participation: Parties Flashcards
What are examples of the people in the liberal faction within the democrat party?
- Bernie Sanders: 2016 presidential campaign saw him advocate free education, reversing Citizens united v FEC, universal health care, and increasing tax
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Been a congress woman since 2017 in NY. Describes herself as a socialist
- Elizabeth Warren: In 2015, she led charge against the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal, but her actions didn’t work.
What % of democrats believed abortion should be legal depending on circumstances in 2019?
45%
What are examples of Conservative democrats?
Joe Manchin: The only democrat to vote for Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the bench in 2018. Was suggested briefly as a cabinet member for trump.
What is a caucus which aligns with the conservative fraction within the democrat party?
Blue Dog Democrats
What are the Blue Dog Democrats?
- A caucus who identify as fiscally conservative centralist democrats.
- Professes an independence from leadership of both parties and a mission of fiscal responsibility and promoting national defence.
- 19 currently in the house of reps.
- On 14th Jan 2020, Blue Dogs pushed Dems to pass the budget.
- However, they are endangered.
What are over 50% of moderate and liberal democrats united over?
Want a presidential candidate to reduce global warming.
What do moderate and conservative democrats distinctly oppose?
federal healthcare for undocumented immigrants
What example demonstrates how the democrat liberal faction has increased since 1994?
In 2018, the liberal cohort has doubled to 51% compared to 1994.
What are examples that demonstrate the potential rise of socialism?
- In 2016, Sanders nearly won the presidential nomination over Clinton.
- Advocated: free healthcare, free college tuition, moral obligation to leave healthy planet to next generation, economic equality etc,.
What are examples of Democrats uniting over climate change?
In 2018, a Green New Deal was launched by Congressional Democrats: The proposal calls for a new House select committee to draft a bill that executes the Green New Deal bar.
How has the democrat party shown unity?
- Over leaders. Around (Biden) or against (Trump)
- $1 trillion infrastructure bill, where all 50 democrats in the Senate united behind it. 69-30 (though speaker Pelosi had to delay it due to the deviant progressives of the party)
What is a fiscal conservative?
Economy functions best with minimal governmental influence (lowering tax and regulation).
What are the Tea Party?
- Oppose excessive taxation and gov intervention in private sectors
- Support stronger immigration control
What are examples of the Tea Party influence?
- Republicans won back the house in 2010 by gaining 63 seats in a major shift, with dozens of tea-party backed Newcomers joining the GOP caucus in response to Obamacare.
- Ted Cruz, an advocate for the Tea Party, was elected to the Senate in 2012 for Texas. He waged a 21 hour filibuster against a gov spending extension as part of his crusade against Obamacare. This tactic led to a 16 day gov shutdown.
What did House majority leader from 2019-2023 Nancy Pelosi say about the Tea Party?
- called for republicans to ‘take back your party’ from ‘extremists’.
- the Tea Party has ‘hijacked the name of Republican.’
What recent examples demonstrates the divisions within the republicans party?
- In 2023, there were 14 defeats for electing the House of Representative leader McCarthy due to failure of trumpians to unite behind him. Said ‘I never thought I would get up here’.
- The debt ceiling vote demonstrated division within the senate
What event was also happening at the same time as the vote for house speaker in 2023?
- Biden was speaking in Kentucky at an event with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell promoting the 2021 infrastructure bill McConnell helped pass.
What % of republicans believe abortion should be legal under certain circumstances in 2019?
67%
What are the three republican factions?
- Moderates
- Fiscal conservatives
- Social conservatives
What are the key values & names of the moderate faction of the republicans?
- less socially conservative.
- Advocate bigger role for the state within society and the economy.
- Unwilling to repeal Obamacare in its entirety.
- More sympathetic towards immigration and higher public spending on education.
- Tend to come from suburban seats and the east coast.
- Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are moderates who voted for the impeachment of trump (2nd time)
What are the key values of fiscal conservatives?
- Keen to reduce government spending.
- Advocate a ‘small government’, tax cuts, keen to push back government regulation like environmental protection measures.
- Strong supporters of balanced budget and reducing the budget deficit.
- Keen to repeal Obamacare and health spending.
- Members tend to represent strongly republican areas in the South and Midwest. Emerged out of the Tea Party movement.
What are the key values of the social conservative republican faction?
- Strong supporters of traditional heterosexual marriage and pro-life stance on abortion.
- tend to favour death penalty, robust policing & tough sentencing.
- Strong links with the religious right, and white conservative evangelical Christianity.
- support prayers in public school and defender of 2nd amendment.
- oppose legalising the use of recreational drugs.
- Associated in Congress with the Republican Study Committee which is the largest ideological caucus in congress. Leading futures include Ted Cruz and Mike Pence.
Who publicly stated in Aug 2020 that he would not vote for President Trump?
Scott from Vermont, a northeast liberal state.
What % of republicans see themself as conservative in 2021?
74%
What % of republican voters did not want Trump as the next republican presidential candidate according to a 2021 survey?
35%
What Caucus is an example of fiscal conservatism?
House Freedom Caucus
What is the House Freedom Caucus?
- Congressional caucus in the House of Representatives.
- It adopts fiscal conservatism features like a reduction on healthcare expenditure.
- “support accountable and limited government, the constitution, and the rule of law”
- Have 29 members since 2001.
- Mainly from southern states like Virginia, Texas, and Ohio
