Why do media and GOP

[samplegirl]

always refer to us at the democrat party? I realize Fox News will never stop it!

[jimfields33]

1. I think they use it as a noun and democratic as adjective and verbs perhaps?

[Mousetoescamper]

2. Rush Limbaugh started it, emphasizing the "rat" and dropping the "ic"

[CrispyQ]

5. I'll bet you're right.

I'd forgotten the emphasis on "rat."

[TheBeam19]

9. Right-wingers felt it implied that the

Democratic Party was the one and only party that believed in democracy, so they wanted to get away from the adjective form of the word. This dates back to 1984.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/17/us/democrats-find-ally-in-republican-camp.html

Interestingly, it turns out that those early 1980s Republicans were justified in thinking that people might see the Democratic Party as the only party of democracy, which all played out on January 6, 2021.

[TheBeam19]

7. First press mention of it was 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Not everyone. The AP Stylebook is clear on this.

The terms Democrat and Democratic Party are capitalized. Don’t use the term Democrat Party unless quoting someone. #APStyleChat

Link to tweet

For the U.S. political party, capitalize Democrat and Democratic in references to the Democratic Party or its members. Lowercase in generic uses: He champions the values of a democratic society. #APStyleChat (1/2)

Link to tweet

[CrispyQ]

4. They think they're owning the libs when they call us the Democrat Party

instead of the correct title the Democratic Party.

They haven't matured past junior high age.

I have a right wing cousin who complained to me that our side thinks their side is stupid & I said in our defense you vote against your best interests, a big contingent of you are prone to hair-brained conspiracy theories, & you keep using a noun as an adjective.

[Mousetoescamper]

10. Yes, it's to own the libs. We also have a very lazy news media.

[Aristus]

11. Their side IS stupid. And they prove it by doing this.

Their comically substandard brains get exhausted after three syllables. So ‘Democratic’ is just too tiring for them to hang in to the end of the word.

[PJMcK]

6. Well, they say "Republicans"

Should they say “Democratics”? Doesn’t that sound awkward?

As DUer Mousetoescamper wrote above, it started with Limbaugh’s typically juvenile name calling. (I’m glad that fucker is dead.)

And as jimfields33 wrote, perhaps there’s a grammatical rule.

As far as name calling is concerned, the worst thing I can think of is to call someone a Republican. And Trump is the most horrible name I’ve ever heard. I don’t need the nicknames.

[moose65]

12. No

The word "Republican" is both a noun and an adjective.

"Democratic" is the adjective. Members of the Democratic Party are Democrats.

When the noun is used as an adjective, it becomes a slur.

Example: see the difference between saying that someone is a "Jewish doctor" and saying that someone is a "Jew doctor."

[PJMcK]

14. Didn't I write that it could be grammatical?

Thanks for the clarification.

[kimbutgar]

8. I heard it was Not Eugene but Joseph McCathy in the 50's that started this Democrat party thing

With the Emphasis on the rat at the end. Limbaugh just emulated him.

[Mousetoescamper]

13. You mean Joseph McCarthy, Eugene McCarthy was a Democratic senator and prez candidate

I don't know that Joseph McCarthy started it, but Limbaugh popularized it and made it his trademark.

[kimbutgar]

15. You are correct

I am changing my post.

I heard this on Thom Hartmann show yesterday.

[Torchlight]

16. Either fifth grade grammar is too difficult for halfwits or

the misuse of fifth grade grammar is the height of humor for halfwits. I won't pretend there are any potential reasons beyond those two.

[multigraincracker]

17. 2,000 years ago "Publican" meant tax collector.

I sometimes refer to them as re-publicans.

[Mousetoescamper]

18. They certainly are taxing our patience.

[multigraincracker]

20. Along with the poor and middle class.

[samplegirl]

19. I heard

Wendell Willkie used it a lot as a slur during his campaign against FDR

[Thunderbeast]

21. Team Blue should rename the GOP...Something they can't argue with.

CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST PARTY