The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party, is a right-wing populist and nationalist political party in the United States, sitting on the right-wing to far-right of the political spectrum
Donald Trump, the 45th (2017–2021) and 47th (since 2025) president
An 1874 cartoon by Thomas Nast, featuring the first notable appearance of the Republican elephant
U.S. representative Thaddeus Stevens, considered a leader of the Radical Republicans, was a fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against African Americans.
Ronald Reagan speaks in support of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential campaign.
Conservatism in the United States consists of right-leaning and right-wing ideological traditions that have collectively rivaled the liberal and progressive U.S. political traditions. Since the early
Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, whose phrase "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", is viewed as a foundational guiding principle by most American conservatives.
Russell Kirk, whose 1953 book The Conservative Mind traced the origins of American conservativism back to the philosophy of Edmund Burke and the Anglo-American tradition
During the Reagan era, American conservatives formed the Three Leg School, a coalition of social, fiscal, and anti-communist foreign policy and national security conservatives.
William F. Buckley Jr., an author who founded the National Review magazine in 1955. "Among our convictions: It is the job of centralized government (in peacetime) to protect its citizens' lives, liberty and property. All other activities of government tend to diminish freedom and hamper progress," Buckley wrote in the magazine's first issue.