Have you ever wondered where America’s political parties got their donkey and elephant mascots? Thomas Nast, the German-born editorial cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly magazine, came up with ...

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Decades later, the connection was cemented by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. In his 1870 Harper’s Weekly cartoon, “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion,” Nast used the donkey to represent ...

That cartoon was in the great tradition of political cartoonists as the public conscience of America. It’s a tradition that stretches back to Thomas Nast’s 19th-century criticisms of the KKK, ...

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