Fascists just can't pronounce "Democratic"!

It's an easy way to identify them!

Of democracy.

It seems to go back to the McCarthy era:

Throughout this time, McCarthy — in an eerie prescience suggesting today’s conspiracy theories about Democrats drinking children’s blood or Haitian immigrants eating pets — argued that the central nexus of the “homosexual agenda” and the “communist sympathizers” was the “Democrat Party.”
Throughout his hearings, carried on live television every day for almost two months, McCarthy refused to use the actual name of the party and its members he was slandering.

Instead, he argued, “Democratic” sounded too nice, too, well, democratic. McCarthy is sometimes quoted (it may be apocryphal) as saying, in Newt Gingrich Word List fashion, that Republicans should instead always say, “Democrat Party, with the emphasis on the ‘rat’!”

In fact, the slur has persisted. Mitch McConnell refers to the “Democrat Party” from the well of the Senate. Random Republicans repeat the slur on television more frequently than they use the actual name of the party. Conservative media use it almost exclusively to describe the Democratic Party.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/weaponizing-words-the-gops-plot-to-61c

Someone once explained this by comparing "the Jewish doctor" vs "the Jew doctor" and it made the point very clear.

Brag!

Crazy how it's been almost two decades here now... Where does the time go?

It seems like it was just yesterday when I was watching C-SPAN and heard a caller rail against Bush and invited people to join this website, and here I am, all those years later!

Mind if I post in the Lounge?
You can too! I post my own milestones.

from Joseph McCarthy's jihad against democracy.

Being the expert on Christianity and all.

… “ learn how to speak English or go back where you came from”. That usually hangs ‘em up like Jimmy Buffet’s bear.

Maybe it would be a good idea to ditch the 's in the thread's title before pointing our fingers at Republican use of bad grammar. Republicans know how to copy and paste, too, don't forget.

"Republican" can be a singular noun, but in that case it ought to be preceded by "a" or "the" (and I doubt you're talking about just one Republican). If you mean it as the possessive of a plural noun, it should be "Republicans' use". If you mean it as an adjective, it should be "Republican use".

The use of a noun in English to stand as an adjective is allowed - eg "The Rose Garden". Or, indeed, "the Liberal Democrat party". Republicans are not committing a grammatical error; they are just using a name for another party which that party does not use itself. How malicious that use is each time is debatable. I'm sure some of them do say it to annoy.

"GOOD grammar" !!! as well as extremely accurate.