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Barack Obama was elected and officially inaugurated as president of the United States of America on January 20, 2009. He was re-elected president in November 2012 and was sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2013. The national exit poll shows self-identified conservatives comprise 34% of the voters and support McCain 78% to 20%.
The neo-liberal right sought to combine a market economy and economic deregulation with the traditional right-wing beliefs in patriotism, elitism and law and order. [10] [page needed] The political terms Left and Right were first used in the 18th century, during the French Revolution, referencing the seating arrangement of the French parliament.
Trump has proposed redirecting $20 billion in existing federal spending to block grants to states to give poor children vouchers to attend a school of their family's choice (including a charter school, private school, or online school). [107] [108] Trump did not explain where the $20 billion in the federal budget would come from. [107]
[citation needed] Republicans at the state level generally support various right to work laws that weaken unions. At the national level, Republicans supported the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947, which gives workers the right not to participate in unions, as opposed to a closed shop, which prohibits workers from choosing not to join unions in ...
The right-wing authoritarian is a conservative who takes fear of democracy to extremes." [74] During the Cold War, right-wing military dictatorships were prominent in Latin America, with most nations being under military rule by the middle of the 1970s. [75] One example of this was General Augusto Pinochet, who ruled over Chile from 1973 to ...
In 2017, after the Trump victory, the book finally topped the bestseller charts. This was off the back of an interview with Megyn Kelly, a conservative news anchor notorious for her spat with Trump.
Many of America’s traditional allies, meanwhile, hinted at their unease but also a pragmatic determination to make the best of their new reality: four more years of a man who has undermined ...
Right-wing terrorism is terrorism motivated by a variety of far right ideologies and beliefs, including anti-communism, neo-fascism, neo-Nazism, racism, xenophobia and opposition to immigration. This type of terrorism has been sporadic, with little or no international cooperation. [430]