The real reason 'Democrat Party' is wrong is not because it's ungrammatical, but because it's incorrect in another way—the party is simply not named the Democrat Party, but the Democratic Party. Calling it anything else is discourteous.
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the former presidential candidate issued his latest condemnation of the “Democrat party”, endorsing a bizarre linguistic tradition among haters of the institution. As Donald Trump
told a rally in 2018: “I call it the Democrat party. It sounds better rhetorically.” By “better”, of course, he meant “worse”, as he explained the next year: he
prefers to say “the ‘Democrat party’ because it doesn’t sound good”.
In removing two letters from “Democratic”, the former president is adopting a jibe that’s been around since
at least the 1940s. Opponents of the party long ago decided, for some reason, that this brutal act of syllabic denial would shame their opponents.
Democrats don’t seem particularly devastated by the attack, but Republicans and those who love them have stuck with it. We hear it regularly from party luminaries such as
JD Vance,
Mike Johnson and
Nikki Haley; pragmatic independents like
RFK Jr; and media voices across the vast spectrum from
Fox News to
Infowars. Last week, even Tulsi Gabbard, once a Democratic presidential candidate herself,
wrote an op-ed proudly describing her departure from the Democrat party and support for Trump.
For almost a century, opponents have removed the ‘ic’ from ‘Democratic’. Is it doing them any good?
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The
party traces its roots to 1792 and the anti-federalist faction led by Thomas Jefferson. The Jeffersonians
called themselves “Republicans” at first, and later “Democratic-Republican.” The party splintered in the late 1820s, and the faction led by Andrew Jackson in his successful presidential campaign of 1828 became the modern Democratic Party. It formally adopted the name “Democratic Party” at its convention in 1844.
Q: Is it the “Democratic” Party or the “Democrat” Party? A: The proper term is “Democratic Party.” FULL QUESTION Why does everyone keep referring to the Democrats as Democratic? … Is the use of Democrat as an adjective by Republican talking heads grammatically incorrect? Is it malevolent? Does...
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