American Solidarity Party
The American Solidarity Party (ASP) is a Christian democratic political party in the United States.[4][5][8] It was founded in 2011 and officially incorporated in 2016. The party has a Solidarity National Committee (SNC) and has numerous active state and local chapters.[8][9] Brian Carroll was the party's nominee in the 2020 presidential election.
American Solidarity Party
Marcos Lopez[1]
2011
The American Commons[2] (unofficial)
Young Americans for Solidarity
Syncretic
Fiscal: Center-left[6][7]
Social: Center-right[6]
"Common Good, Common Ground, Common Sense."[8]
The American Solidarity Party has been characterized as socially conservative while supporting government intervention in economic matters.[10] The ASP encourages social development along the lines of subsidiarity and sphere sovereignty, with a stated emphasis on "the importance of strong families, local communities, and voluntary associations".[11] It favors fiscally progressive policies[12][8][13] and a social market economy with a distributist character,[14][15] that seeks "widespread economic participation and ownership"[15] and providing a social safety net program.
Names and symbols[edit]
The party's original name was inspired by its European counterparts, the Polish trade union Solidarity,[16] and the current one reflects its more developed ideology and focus in the years since.[8]
The ASP mascot is the pelican, a traditional symbol of charity.[17] The party's political color is orange, like other Christian-democratic political parties.
On social media, ASP members use the orange heart emoji to denote their "whole-life ethic" and Christian democratic influences.
Members of the American Solidarity Party use the demonym 'Solidarist' to refer to themselves.[18]
Influences[edit]
Daniel Silliman writes that the American Solidarity Party, as with other Christian-democratic political parties, draws from Catholic social teaching and Neo-Calvinist theology.[3] In the same vein, David McPherson says that the American Solidarity Party "affirm[s] ... the full spectrum of Catholic social teaching (namely, the teachings regarding the sanctity of human life, the common good, subsidiarity, religious freedom, solidarity, etc.)," contrasting the ASP to both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, each of which recognizes only some of these items.[28] Its strongest support is in California and Texas, according to the Madera Tribune (of Madera, California).[23]
