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.
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.
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
As it happens, I prefer TOWP.
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.
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.
No argument there.
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.
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.
When they go low, you do likewise!
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.
::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.