The strangest insult in US politics: why do Republicans call it ‘the Democrat party’?
by Matthew Cantor in Los Angeles from US news | The Guardian on (#6QG9P)
For almost a century, opponents have removed the ic' from Democratic'. Is it doing them any good?
The Democratic party? Robert F Kennedy Jr's never heard of it.
On Tuesday, 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".
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