The President pondered this. The President’s party was the Social Patriotic Movement, the "Soc-Pats." The Soc-Pats were the leading faction in the Left Tradition Bloc, which also included the Social Democrats, the Communist Party, Power to the People, Working America, and the ancient and shriveled Democratic Party. The Left Tradition Bloc had been suffering less ideological disarray than usual, lately. They had been able—barely—to seize the American Presidency.