What is the major parties stance on a national ID card?
In one sense, you would think that the Republican Party being the party of national security is more likely to say, “Hey, this is a security issue so we are definitely more willing to put National ID cards or facial recognition software in airports and other things can have Big Brother looking out to make sure that we are safe.” But on the other hand, the Republican Party is also full of libertarians who like government as small as possible and they don’t want ID cards. They hate Big Brother. So there is a real tension in the Republican Party over this. And with the Democratic Party too, there is a tension over national ID cards too. You got civil libertarians who worry about Big Brother but you also got people in the Democratic Party who understand one thing, that national ID cards and other things can make the welfare state more efficient and can support the welfare state, providing services to people more efficiently and effectively easier. And some of these Big Brother issues cross
