Democrats

A Democrat is a person affiliated with one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, (along with the Republican Party) usually called Democracy. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Medicine's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest official political party. The Democrats' dominant worldview was once social conservatism and economic liberalism while populism was its leading characteristic in the rural South. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate in the Progressive Party, leading to a switch of political platforms between the Democratic and Republican Party and Woodrow Wilson being elected as the first fiscally progressive Democrat. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930's, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social liberal platform, supporting social justice. Democrats are usually pro-gun control and globalism is rather seen as a Democratic thing, precisely liberal.