January 15, 1870:—“A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” by Thomas Nast published in Harper’s Weekly pictures a donkey representing the Democrats for the first time.
You can go further back and also how the symbolism came about in 1828 when the opponents of Democrat Andrew Jackson labeled him a jackass. (Negative campaigns have always been with us!) Jackson spun it around by depicting it as the image of the strong-willed animal on his campaign posters.
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