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Until the 1960s, the Republican party was the centrist, "Establishment" party, and the Democrats were an unlikely mixture of right and left, including George Wallace and George McGovern. This was beca …

An important issue is that the American President is elected separately from the determination of the majority party in the legislative body in the United States. In most European countries, the head …

The Democratic-Republican Party was a term used mainly by historians and political scientists. It was initially called the "Republican" party by its founders. Only rarely was it called the Democratic- …

Justcal has noted that the actual trial (not the memoirs) took place in 1813-15. This is important because Indiana was not a state until 1816. That's why the citation would be hard to find, because it …

The "Nazi" Party STARTED OUT as the National Socialist German Workers Party, with a left-leaning, socialist bent. That is, until it enrolled "Member Number 7", aka Adolf Hitler, who had other ideas. A …

One reason was the heavy fighting in the Soviet Union during World War II, that took a heavier toll of the later cohort of the so-called World War II generation, than in most other countries. The grou …

I would date the "turning" of the Republican party into a pro business party to William McKinley 1897-1901. The Republicans dominated the Presidency for 72 years between 1861-1933. But this can be su …

I'll answer only for the United States, the country I know best, but the answer is yes. That is, the Civil War shaped the two party system as it exists today. Prior to the Civil War, there as a "craz …

The Dixiecrats and the AIP were not really the same party, because they were led differently. But they had somewhat the same ideologies, geographies and voters. The Dixiecrats were led by Strom Thurm …

The Federalist party had been on a downslope after its initial success. This was due to the fact that its first candidate was George Washington, war hero and Virginian that was equally acceptable to t …

Reagan's weakness was that he was not a member of the "Eastern Establishment." Ford was, as well as the incumbent President. That fact led many "established" Republicans to support him "automatically" …

I searched the internet, and found no reference to Hitler's being a Reichstag deputy or sponsoring legislation up to 1933. This tallies with my personal recollection of no such activity. A commenter f …