Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.

Their 1892 platform was premised on the following observation: “The conditions which surround us best justify our ...

Further, from the 1870s to the 1890s, party control of Congress tended to ... Democrats adopted the pro-silver position and nominated a populist firebrand for president, William Jennings Bryan.