I'm confused - the Democrats/Democratic party uses "Democrat" extensively in their website. It it a noun vs adjective thing that I'm missing?
Yes, you'll notice they never use the singular "Democrat". They describe democrats, the Democratic party, etc. but only Republicans started using this bizarre "Democrat Party" or the "Democrat nominee" thing.
I do remember hearing "Republican'ts" and "rethuglicans" from dems but in my experience it's extremely rare.
It seems to be more about disputing that the party is in fact democratic. Among other things, the superdelegates make this clear. It's also the matter of the party making a name-grab for democracy itself, which is a more valuable trademark than anything associated with the republic.
Yes, I'm sure the pejorative use by Republicans of the term that Democrats use to refer to themselves is rooted in Republicans' sincere concern with the structure of the DNC's primary. That must be it.
> burfog 19 hours ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: Iran attack: US airbases in Iraq hit by ballistic ...
> Democrat voters may oppose war, but the same can not be said for democrat politicians.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21987859
Lol, come on man.
A quick google search shows a number of mentions, but it feels so odd that I could've missed this, especially since a person who isn't in the know can easily make the mistake of thinking Democrats belong to the Democrat Party.
Has it historically not been an issue enough to call out? Is this only in some circles and not universally agreed upon? It just seems so odd for me to have missed this being a thing. It is like if one day someone told you 'fish' was a loaded negative term to refer to people who went to college.
Here's a Twitter search for Trump with all the times he said "Democrat" singular, almost every occurrence is designed to be a pejorative: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=from%3A%40realDonaldTr...
Or for Matt Gaetz:
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40mattgaetz%20%22democr...
Or Jim Jordan:
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40Jim_Jordan%20%22democ...
Edit:
Apparently it made it to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
Hmmm...
Friend = OK
Friendly = OK
He's a friendly person = OK
He's a friend person = NOT OK
He's a friend = OK
This should be something most speakers learn early, though, maybe they won't know all the rules for modification and will make up an incorrect adjective. I.e., He's a democratly person.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/07/the-ic-factor
Someone like US Senator Josh Hawley went to Stanford, then to Yale Law, he clerked on the US Appeals Court and then for the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was then elected as the Attorney General of Missouri and won the race for US Senator in 2018.
Do you honestly think he doesn't know the proper name of one of the two major parties in the USA, or the body that organizes their elections? It's not subtle. Just super juvenile 'own the libs' silliness.
> Today on Fox & Friends Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said the Democrat National Committee ...
> “Essentially the Democrat Party bought themselves ...
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sen-hawley-democrats-bought-fe...