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Trump era section

The Trump era section suffers from WP:RECENTISM and WP:EXCESSDETAIL. It is seven paragraphs long, which is overly lengthy in comparison to other sections of the article. Some of the detail that is excessive here might be appropriate for articles on Trump and Trumpism.

I attempted to fix these problems with a WP:BOLD edit (see [1]), which was reverted by Davefelmer. Per WP:BRD, I welcome input from other editors on the question of how much detail should be included in this section. MonMothma (talk) 17:30, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

I think it's a fair description of major events in the period. Just because other sections are too short doesn't mean we have to cut down this one. Over time it can be adapted but I don't see anything particularly WP:UNDUE and the body is literally meant for more detail. Davefelmer (talk) 17:47, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

UPDATE: As a compromise, I've tidied it up further to address length concerns. Kept it to most important info in line with what's discussed on other sections. Five paragraphs and a lot cleaner now. Davefelmer (talk) 18:22, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I think the section's length is fine. The Trump era has seen major upheaval of the GOP and American politics in general, and that can be reflected in its length. Cortador (talk) 21:17, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

I agree. Davefelmer (talk) 22:30, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

The section is too long. It might help too discuss changes here since the BOLD edit was reverted. I would hope we could find consensus on at least some of the reductions. Springee (talk) 18:57, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

IS the section commensurate with the amount of coverage of how Trump has affected the Republican party? IMHO this might be a better section for GRCT than immigration, or the factions section. DN (talk) 22:40, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

"Trumpist" section

This whole section needs to be entirely rewritten to be about a right-wing populist faction.

I don't think the Republican Party is dominated by "isolationists" and a lot of this seems extensively WP:SYTNH'y. KlayCax (talk) 05:03, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

International Affiliation

I don't know if this has been discussed because there are lots of topics. But on the Democratic Party page, it says we can't use the PA's page as a source to include it in the infobox but the IDU's page is used as a source here. GamerKlim9716 (talk) 20:27, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 April 2024

It says people who did not attend college. How does that get put in there ridiculous 24.239.244.233 (talk) 08:28, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 08:37, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

I assume that the original poster was referring to this sentence: "In the 21st century, the party receives its strongest support from rural voters, evangelical Christians, men, senior citizens, veterans, white voters, and those who did not attend college." It "got put in there" because surveys of Republicans show that many of them do not have college degrees. This is not to say that no Republican has a college degree. Or even that the numbers of Republicans without college degrees is higher than the number of Republicans with them. All it is saying is that people without college degrees are more likely to be Republicans than Democrats. This is far from "ridiculous", this is well documented. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 15:41, 9 April 2024 (UTC)