Why is it a donkey?

It is a jackass

>>139960107
>>139960260
Pretty much this.

The most common mascot symbol for the party has been jackass or the donkey.

Andrew Jackson's enemies twisted his name to "jackass" as a term of ridicule regarding a stupid and stubborn animal. However the Democrats liked the common-man implications and picked it up too, so the image persisted and evolved. Its most lasting impression came from the cartoons of Thomas Nast 1870 in Harper's Weekly. Cartoonists followed Nast and used the donkey to represent the Democrats, and the elephant to represent the Republicans.

>>139960107
Because your all fucking donkeys?

>>139960107
Did you not see shrek? The lovable juvenile idotic donkey is the Democrat voter base while the ogre that want to be left alone to live a traditional lifestyle in his secluded swamp represents the Republican voter base. Then the monarch floods it with refugee and they join forces to bring the pain

>>139960107
It's not. It's a jackass.

>>139960107
>Why is it a donkey?
Because donkeys are stupid and annoying.

And this is why the Elephant

A fable common at that time was about the Donkey who put on a lion skin to scare everyone but the Elephant.
Also picked up by Thoms Nast

>>139960979
inb4 Narnia ending, the author got the inspiration from the fable.

File: Hee_Haw.jpg (13KB, 311x237px) Image search: [Google]

13KB, 311x237px

>republishits being so disillusioned with themselves that they have to resort to insulting the left's mascot
top haw

>>139960439
Why are the democrats so mad about statues but have a mascot based on a racist who personally murdered PoC? Shouldn't they change it?

>>139961320
Typical liberal doesn't know history.

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/how-did-the-republican-and-democratic-parties-get-their-animal-symbols

>>139961320

(You)

File: mosquito_0216[1].png (1MB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1280x720px

>>139960107
Because real donkeys are cute and endearing. If they used their actual form as a mascot, nobody would vote for them. Pic related

>>139961320
>the left's mascot
that political illiteracy though

>>139961320
>disillusioned
>drumpf has a 99% chance of losing

File: go_be_nazi_somewhere_else.jpg (268KB, 1199x745px) Image search: [Google]

268KB, 1199x745px

>>139961413
Pro-tip: Nobody on the left gives a shit about statues, only Trumpanzee trailer trash care. White people chimpouts, never thought I'd see the day

>>139962348
Are you fucking around?
Mentally challenged?
Or just delusional?

>>139960508
Did you just find political commentary in Shrek?
And it actually kinda made sense?

>>139960107
Before you vote for the mule, make sure to prep the bull.

>>139963359
I was impressed as well.
But logic kicked in and I relaised Donkey would have claimed to help but ruined the trip on purpose.

>>139960107
because donkey is vehicle of Shitala (Shani, Hlodolet, Saturn) - this relates to left hemisphere of brain
and elephant is vehicle of Brhaspati (Guru, Perun, Jupiter) - this relates to right hemisphere of brain