Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is the older of the United States' two major parties and one of the oldest continuously operating mass electoral parties in the world. Its modern identity was built through the New Deal, the civil-rights realignment, and the growth of a diverse metropolitan coalition that includes organized labor, Black voters, many Latino and Asian American voters, liberal professionals, younger voters, and a large share of the secular and college-educated center-left. Democrats generally defend a more active federal state in healthcare, labor standards, climate policy, social insurance, and voting-rights protection, but the party is internally broad enough to contain moderates, institutional liberals, and an organized progressive wing in continuous tension.
