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I think jackk said it perfectly!
The democrat and republican parties were both not founded according to Torah (shebiksav, and certainly not shebaal peh) so they cannot be the perfect Jewish view.
On the other hand, there are obviously various aspects of both parties that align with Torah (this can even be said of communism, totalitarianism, etc.), and its possible that at times one party will align more than the other.
When the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe was being arrested in the USSR in 1937, the KGB asked his daughters which political party they affiliate themselves.
They didn’t say democracy or capitalism. They said they belong to their father’s party, which is the party of Hashem and the Torah.
If only all frum people would speak this way today.