Political Partys- Party Factions Flashcards
What is a party faction?
A group of people with common political purpose especially a subgroup of a political party that has interests or opinions different from the rest of the political party
What are the 7 Republican Party factions?
Conservatives
Neoconservatives
Christian rights
Libertarians
Moderates
Trumpists
Antitrumpists
Republican- conservatives significant members?
Senators Robert A Taft
Russel Kirk
William F Buckley J
Republican- conservative views?
Promotion of individual liberty and free market economy. Increase in tax and govt regulation
Economic policy- large decrease on govt spending, less regulation on economy, privatization and global security. Before 1930 GOP committed to high tariffs (republican study committee)
Affirmative action- oppose this, military spending, gun control, big govt education is a failure, anti abortion and environment
Neoconservative members of the factions?
President- George W Bush
V.P. Dick Chaney
Secretary of defense- Donald Rumsfeld
Bush Chaney administration
Neoconservative views?
Height in 2000- peaked with George Bush and Dick Chaney with 2003 invasion on Iraq
Inverntionist for- foreign policy, democracy and American abroad interests
Importing into Rep party- military action when morally valid
After Donald trump this declined, some of d trumps administrations turned neoconservative
Christian rights members?
Marsha Blackburn senator
Governor Mike Huckbee
Senator Rick Santorum
Christian right view?
Strong support of social conservativism and Christian national policy
Christianity to influence laws envangelic Roman Catholic, protest and Mormon
Rooted in 1940
Anti abortion, LGBTQ and gun control
Overturn segregation of church and state
Libertarianism members?
Barry Goldwater
Chris Sununu
Mike Lee
Rond Paul Thomas Mass and Ron Paul
Liberatariansim- views?
Created in 1950-60s combo of traditionalist and social conservativism, economic right liberty
Cut tax and regulation, reapeal affordable care act. Protect gun rights oppose US patriot act drugs
Foreign policy- favor non interventionism
Moderate members?
John McCain of Arisona
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Susan Colling of Main
Collin Powell
Rep governance group
Justin Amash
Moderates view?
Conservatives- moderate on fiscal issues and moderate
Liberal on social issues (mainly in blue state)
Highly educated and part of never Trump
Similar to rep- economic views
Differences to rep- LGBTQ+ affirmative action, environment, abortion, immigration embryonic stem cell
-Tuesday group bipartisan to issues (John Kako)
Trumpists members?
Dominant faction of Rep party
Right wing ideology
JD Vance
Trumpists views?
MAGA- authoritarian anti democratic movement successfully weponises culture
-Supports USA aid to Israel but not Ukraine (supports Russia)
‘American first’ foreign policy agenda
Immigration restrictions
Against free trade
Environmental protection laws
Anti Trumpists members?
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Anti Trumpists views?
Anti trump ideology rejecting him in 2016
Representative Liz Chaney removed as conference chair in HOR as defended by pro trump challenger
Adam Kissinger retiring at end of term
Murkowski faced pro trump challenge Kelly Tshibaka who she defeated
A primary challenge for Mitt Romney led him to not run for reelection in 2024
What are the 3 democratic factions?
Liberals
Moderates/third way
Progressive
Democratic- Liberal members?
The Kennedy’s
Democratic- Liberal views?
Follows FDR new deal (govt intervention)
John F Kennedy- new frontier
Lyndon B Johnson- great society (latter established Medicare and Medicare)
Obama- LGBTQ+ rights, environmental rules (Paris accords), immigration (dreamers) and Obamacare
Joe Biden- collage tuition fees (debt), pardoning merjuana charges
Moderate/third way members?
Clinton and Gore
Moderate third way- views?
Fiscally moderated to conservatives and socially moderate to liberal
Reaction to loosing against Regan
Located in swing state
Obama originally against same sex marrige
Moderate and third way factions?
Blue dog coalition (Stephanie Murphy and Lou Correa)
New democratic coalition (Henry Cuellar)
Moderate- Blue dog coalition?
Fiscal, neutral on gun control and gay rights
Moderate- new democratic coalition (Henry Cuellar)
Big govt house sales, pro economic, pro innovation and fiscally respondants
Progressive members?
Bernie Sanders
Congressional progressige (Mark Broom)
Progressive members?
FDR- new deal
Woodrow Wilson- new freedom
Modern progressive culturally liberal on social issue like face and identity, inspiration from civil voting rights act by FDR
Enacted by Lyndon B Johnson
Advocate Martin Luther King
