"Democrat Party" isn't bugging me as much as it used to.

[gulliver]

Maybe it's just me. I'm in the party for democrats, believers in democracy. It used to bug the heck out of me when some Republicanistic yahoo said "Democrat Party." Now they all do it, including Fred Trump's brat, technically the President. But somehow it doesn't bother me as much. It almost makes me feel like Republicans are denouncing democracy itself now and isolating respect for it to our party. That's starting to be the way I hear it.

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Just call them the Repubic Party and I'm good.

[marybourg]

8. I call them the

Publican Party.

[jls4561]

9. publican and sinner party

[progree]

13. RepubliCON Party -- the party of CONservatives (the 1%) and CONNEDservates (the goobers)

It's all a matter of proper pronunciation and sticky CAPS LOCK keys.

[Rstrstx]

31. That or Republiclan works for me

Alternate spelling Republiklan.

[mwooldri]

11. I prefer Trump Party.

Because any reasonable Republican has either disaffiliated themselves from the GOP or switched to the Democratic Party.

[bdamomma]

36. the party of trump

the republicans are no more. That is their cross to bear.

[ibegurpard]

2. Why would you give them this inch?

[SCantiGOP]

3. Call them by their name

The Trump Party

[gulliver]

4. Judo. Words and phrases change meaning over time.

As I say, it could be just the way I'm hearing it now, but now I think it's starting to turn into a concession to our party's superiority for those who believe in democracy.

[Frasier Balzov]

5. In 2004, when I heard candidate John Kerry say it

I was very disheartened. I knew we were in trouble, even before swiftboating came up to full steam.

[UTUSN]

26. When did KERRY say it and what was the quote? If something like that stuck with you, you should be

able to verify something that some of us would take as a slam at KERRY.

[Frasier Balzov]

27. I don't think he realized that it had been co-opted.

Possibly assumed Democrat Party was actually a more correct way to refer to the Democratic Party. It's a proper noun, he might have thought. Not an adjective.

This bastardization had come from right-wing talk radio, Limbaugh specifically. Don't give the Left the satisfaction of calling themselves democratic! Thus entering the vernacular of conservative usage. Something Kerry might have unknowingly picked up like a virus when crossing the aisle.

As Al Franken once observed, be vigilant to such word tricks or Clear Skies Initiative can cover for the true meaning that someone is planning to clear the skies of birds.

[UTUSN]

34. All Dems including so prominent one as KERRY were *immediately* irritated by it

See all the other posts here about its being a propaganda gimmick started by Frank LUNTZ.

You have avoided adding context to your hearing KERRY use it.

[Frasier Balzov]

35. I love Wikipedia, but have the same problem there.

It's not enough to assert your own first-hand experience as a reliable source.

I hollered at John Kerry through the TV when I heard him do it.

[Aristus]

6. Still pisses me off.

What makes me feel better is knowing they're dipshit Republicans who get exhausted going for that fourth syllable, so they give up.

[abqtommy]

7. Whatever they call us it just shows that we're on their tiny minds!

[VarryOn]

10. It's not bothered me personally....

In fact, I didnt know it was offensive until a couple years ago. But, I do want to say it correctly, and I do say and write "Democratic" now. Admittedly, though, on occasion, the incorrect way comes out when I'm speaking. Fortunately, it's rare and rarer.

[BigmanPigman]

12. It doesn't sound right grammatically to me.

People should be taught to pronounce words correctly. Once they know what is correct they can choose to mispronounce it if they want to, but that is just my opinion. It hurts my ears like nails on a chalkboard.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

14. It sounds ignorant,

OH wait!

[BigmanPigman]

40. That is a great way to describe it.

[renate]

15. I don't even understand why they think it's an insult

Whatever. They’re stupid.

[Funtatlaguy]

16. They tested it.

GOP Pollster Frank Luntz said that Democratic has more positive feelings attached to it than Democrat does.
So, he told Repubs to start calling us the Democrat Party.

[crickets]

21. And Newt Gingrich was all too glad to help. nt

[UTUSN]

25. ***Yip, LUNTZ*** is the source of it, that his focus groups reacted negatively, bad grammar grated

The problem is, as the O.P. is experiencing, over time crap becomes normalized, or as we're all experiencing like SHITLER operates on normalizing himself. The succeeding generations forgot how it started and then later ones don't even know how it started, the propaganda of it at work.

The grating of bad grammar (using the noun "Democrat" where the adjective "Democratic" goes) just *SOUNDS* bad for starters. I've heard young wingnuts today, their not knowing the history, attempting to rationalize the usage on an ideological basis, claiming that the DemocratIC Party is not "d"emocratic, and needs to be called by something that grates on the ear.

[Initech]

30. It was an insult back in the McCarthy days.

Apparently they think it's ok to use it now because they're insane.

[Crunchy Frog]

17. I refuse to allow facsist political figures and propagandists to rename MY party.

That's just me though.

[malaise]

18. That effin' simple

[bdamomma]

38. plus they can't even

govern they have proved that over the decades. We have always cared about the people.

[BlueStater]

19. It's childish.

I can’t get over the fact that it’s so-called adults partaking in this juvenile bullshit. So many emotionally-stunted assholes in this country who stopped maturing at the age of ten. It’s beyond embarrassing.

[Green Line]

20. It is childish, just like their idiot leader

[Crunchy Frog]

42. It's also effective. They're getting our own people to normalize and interalize it.

[BlueIdaho]

22. Democrat noun, Democratic adjective.

It’s really not that hard. No point joining the ignorant.

[gulliver]

23. Noun as adjective

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-adjective.htm

It rings right if you listen. It just sounds ignorant when Republicanists who are ignorant use it.

[BlueIdaho]

24. Cool! Thanks!

[cry baby]

28. Still like fingernails on a chalkboard for me. Probably because they

say it like that to push our buttons. It definitely pushes my buttons.

[Vinca]

29. At this point it's the least of our worries.

[octoberlib]

32. It's meant as a slur besides being grammatically incorrect. Still bugs the hell out of me

and I correct anybody who uses it in my presence.

[VOX]

33. It sounds illiterate, and it's the verbal equivalent of a throwing a "gang sign."

It will always irritate me, because of WHO says it, and then says the uglier things right after they spit out “Democrat Party.”

Trump is doing it, too, and even that flaming mental case knows it’s incorrect, but his reptilian sense of aggression has been programmed to say it, since it’s one more thing that “owns the libs.”

[Leghorn21]

37. +++

I first heard it during GW bush years, and it pissed me off then and it pisses me off now GRRRRR

[VOX]

39. You know it!

There was a short piece in The New Yorker a few years back that traced the genesis of “Democrat” as a harsh-sounding adjective to (who else?) Joseph McCarthy, in the early 1950s.

But you’re right, it really caught on in the Bush II years. Once the RW shock-jocks spouted it, it became a Republican staple.

[keithbvadu2]

41. Some cons were using "Democrate".

Some cons were using "Democrate".

I asked what the extra e was for but they had no answer.

OK by me. It looks ignorant.