A racist massacre at a Black South Carolina church in 2015 and George Floyd’s murder in 2020 intensified a reckoning over the role of Confederate symbols in American public life and government.

The 2024 platform commits to the "largest deportation program in American history." The Republican Party has also pushed for robust military spending — though it was Republican President Dwight D.

In American politics, symbols have tremendous ... Statue of Liberty as a symbol of their party’s values can serve as a ...