A Republican elephant tells a Democrat donkey he found a history book they can both agree should not be censored. It says the pro-slavery party started the KKK and was the party of Jim Crow. Rivers targets selective historical memory in the school curriculum censorship debate.
The April 2021 cartoon by Dave Whamond shows two Republican elephants labeled Traditional Republicans and Trumpism straining in opposite directions until a crack forms between them. Both figures deny any split while their bodies separate. The image reflects ongoing Republican Party tensions after the 2020 election as some members embraced Trump-aligned positions and others resisted. It captures the debate over whether the party remained unified or had fractured along ideological lines.
