# Democrat vs. Democratic **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 29, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270 "2023-10-29T15:57:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/41 "2023-10-29T20:10:38Z")
It supports that it is a trend that is changing certain nouns to adjectives. That is why I said, “completely.” In other words, potato potahto not worth arguing more. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/42 "2023-10-29T20:12:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Somewhat who insists on calling it The Democrat Party after they have been told it is officially called The Democratic Party is doing it to belittle and insult. Absolutely. I’m just rejecting TWOP’s nonsequitor whataboutism; you can’t automatically assume that John Q. Anybody is being pejorative if you hear him use it, while “Trumplican” is unambiguous. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/43 "2023-10-29T20:20:10Z")
I strongly disagree. I don’t “melt down” or cry or have some over the top reaction to the usage, but it is intended as an insult. A mild insult unless the more “clever” use “demonrat”. A bit off topic: “…just _incredibly_ cringe.” This usage of cringe makes me cringe. I know it’s probably part of the lexicon now, but it’s like a rake on a chalk board to me. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/44 "2023-10-29T20:28:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Absolutely. I’m just rejecting TWOP’s As it happens, I prefer _TOWP_. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/45 "2023-10-29T23:08:07Z")
I thin another aspect of the name change is that by changing it from the party name to the name of the politicians that are members of that party, it subtlety suggests that the party’s primary focus is the interests of those individuals. So while the Democratic party might have a broad national agenda, the Democrat party is just interested in helping themselves. I guess if you wanted turn about one could start referring to the Republicans party. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/46 "2023-10-29T23:16:17Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I guess if you wanted turn about one could start referring to the Republicans party. I tried googling “republicans party” and didn’t see it used as you suggest. You may have come up with that great rarity in intellectual history — an original idea. Now, as to whether it would benefit the Democratic Party to sink to the level of the other side — no. Life can be unfair. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/47 "2023-10-29T23:22:48Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Now, as to whether it would benefit the Democratic Party to sink to the level of the other side — no. Life can be unfair. No argument there. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/48 "2023-10-29T23:27:19Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > The users of “Democrat Party” are deciding for themselves that “democratic” imputes a virtue to that party that it does not have, so they are doing us all a favor by truncating the adjective “democratic” and making up a new adjective “democrat” to replace it. This was the exact explanation my MAGA stepmom gave when she made a considered decision to start referring to the “Democrat” Party. I winced the first time I heard her say it, and explained that if she didn’t know, it was disrespectful to the party to refer to it that way. She held fast to her explanation. Next time she began speaking about her church, I told her I thought Pope Frank was doing a pretty decent job, all things considered. She flipped out and gave me a frothy lecture about showing respect to the Pope. Ahem. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/49 "2023-10-29T23:29:32Z")
You got two choices. Let it slide and look weak, or call them on it and look petty. (I prefer to look petty, we’ve looked weak long enough.) Or start calling them Republicanics and when they ask what you mean just explain that all those loose “ics” had to land somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/50 "2023-10-29T23:42:07Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Or start calling them Republicanics and when they ask what you mean just explain that all those loose “ics” had to land somewhere. When they go low, you do likewise! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/51 "2023-10-29T23:52:20Z")
If I hear the Democrat Party I’m left with no other option but to conclude that person is somehow unaware of the name of one of the two, major, US, political parties and can then assign a value to that person’s political ‘’‘opinions’‘’. I view that value being a negative number a feature and not a bug. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270/52 "2023-10-29T23:58:07Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > If I hear the Democrat Party I’m left with no other option but to conclude that person is somehow unaware of the name of one of the two, major, US, political parties and can then assign a value to that person’s political ‘’‘opinions’‘’. ::nods knowingly:: Yeah, if I hear someone figures the person in question is _unaware_ of the name of the party, I also reach a conclusion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-vs-democratic/992270.md?page=2)