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The strangest insult in US politics: why do Republicans call it ‘the Democrat party’?
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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