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I don’t see why the U.S. parties shouldn’t have political positions listed. I’d say the Republican Party could be listed as “center to far-right,” as they have centrist politicians such as Charlie Baker, center-right politicians such as Lindsey Graham, right-wing politicians such as Kevin McCarthy, and far-right politicians such as Marjorie Taylor Greene. 167.206.66.211 (talk) 15:23, 31 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

For some reason, editors decided at one point that this article about a political party shouldn't feature the party's political stance in the infobox. Feel free to open a RfC to change that, but prepared to editors to bend themselves into pretzels to fight this. Cortador (talk) 09:14, 24 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

There were several reasons for excluding this. The first is that U.S. parties do not have official ideologies or any control over their membership. Therefore they have both been broad tent parties spanning the political spectrum although they have become more polarized in recent decades.

Another is that the terms are unclear. What they mean depends on the speaker and is only clear from context. The Republicans could be described as right-wing, center right or centrist and they would all be accurate in different contexts.

Also, it supplies no additional information. Presumably we would adopt these terms based on how we position the various ideologies already presented. It would be like like having a list of people and their heights then adding whether they were short, medium height or tall. TFD (talk) 14:14, 24 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The logo in the article is incorrect. The stars are upside down. 2600:1700:7DF0:6350:39FF:A5B7:C64C:CF72 (talk) 03:01, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The stars are the same direction here, but then they're flipped here. I would assume the latter is correct also. –CWenger (^ • @) 03:24, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The former example with the downward-pointing verteces is from a 2016 pdf, while the live web version is current.

Trudging through the web archive, one sees the GOP flip-flopped on stars in 2021. [1] —RVJ (talk) 13:23, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think we can possibly solve the position issue by putting "Right-wing" as the ideology and then a note explaining that there are centre-right and radical right factions within the party, similar to the article about the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), which describes the ideology as "Right-wing" (which forms the majority of both the (federal) US Republicans and the Japanese LDP) and then has a note explaining factionalism in the party. I guess a similar thing could be also used for the Democratic Party (United States) article but it would be harder for the Democrats because while they have centre-left majority they also have centrist, left-wing and even somewhat centre-right factions within the party.

Any thoughts? QLDer in NSW (talk) 15:18, 2 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'll support this if you can dig out sources that confirm that the GOP is primarily right-wing. I don't doubt that they are, but we need some good sources to outright state it. Cortador (talk) 07:55, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]