Ever wondered about the origin of the
Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant?
Thank Thomas Nast, the 19th
century political cartoonist for Harper’s
Weekly.
Think back 146 years, to January 1870,
when Nast drew a cartoon titled “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion.” He used
the jackass/donkey to depict Democratic newspapers in the South, savaging Edwin
Stanton, who had been Lincoln’s Secretary of War.
About four years later, Nast drew a
bloated and berserk elephant to represent the Republican electorate during a
political brouhaha about the prospect that President Ulysses Grant might run
for a third term (he didn’t).
Imagine what Nast might have done with
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