It’s hard to call someone “democratic” in one breath and “socialist” in the next. Just as some people on this board insist on using the term “reactionary” instead of “conservative”; it’s the same logic. They don’t think the word is being used properly.
It’s really not much more than that.
Well, that and maybe a bit of honest confusion. Republicans belong to the Republican Party. The word “Republican” serves as both a noun and adjective. Those not trying to use it as a pejorative might assume Democrats are from the Democrat Party because they’d follow the same semantic rules.
I realize this discussion is a pretty big tangent from this thread, and humbly suggest if we want to continue it, it might be worthy of its own thread.