GOP
Grand Old Party (the US Republican Party)
TRANSLATION
GOP (Grand Old Party) = die Republikaner --- GOOGLE INDEX Grand Old Party: approximately 372,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Democrats, who occupy the political center and align themselves with the GOP on certain issues, suffered
heavy losses.
SWP-Berlin
heavy losses.
SWP-Berlin
Did you
know?
GOP - Grand Old Party (the US Republican Party)
Abbreviation
- Grand Old Party (= a name for the Republican Party)
(Cambridge Dictionary)
Not to be confused with GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the GOP is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
Founded mainly by anti-slavery activists in 1854, the GOP dominated politics nationally and in the majority of northern States for most of the period between 1860 and 1932.
The party's platform is based on American conservatism that promotes free market capitalism, free enterprise, business, a strong national defence, deregulation, labour union restrictions, socially conservative policies and traditional values, usually with Christian overtones.
The nickname of the Republican Party didn't get attached to it until 1888. It was previously used by Southern Democrats. But after the Republicans won back the Presidency and Congress after a long absence, the Chicago Tribune proclaimed: "Let us be thankful that under the rule of the Grand Old Party ... these United States will resume the onward and upward march which the election of Grover Cleveland in 1884 partially arrested."
(sources: Wikipedia, USHistory.org)
---
BRITISH ENGLISH Note: Republican means relating to a republic. In republican systems of government, power is held by the people or the representatives that they elect. ADJECTIVE...the nations that had adopted the republican form of government.
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I could imagine that many GOP members felt uneasy about Donald Trump's entry into politics."
Abbreviation
- Grand Old Party (= a name for the Republican Party)
(Cambridge Dictionary)
Not to be confused with GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the GOP is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
Founded mainly by anti-slavery activists in 1854, the GOP dominated politics nationally and in the majority of northern States for most of the period between 1860 and 1932.
The party's platform is based on American conservatism that promotes free market capitalism, free enterprise, business, a strong national defence, deregulation, labour union restrictions, socially conservative policies and traditional values, usually with Christian overtones.
The nickname of the Republican Party didn't get attached to it until 1888. It was previously used by Southern Democrats. But after the Republicans won back the Presidency and Congress after a long absence, the Chicago Tribune proclaimed: "Let us be thankful that under the rule of the Grand Old Party ... these United States will resume the onward and upward march which the election of Grover Cleveland in 1884 partially arrested."
(sources: Wikipedia, USHistory.org)
---
BRITISH ENGLISH Note: Republican means relating to a republic. In republican systems of government, power is held by the people or the representatives that they elect. ADJECTIVE...the nations that had adopted the republican form of government.
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I could imagine that many GOP members felt uneasy about Donald Trump's entry into politics."
