This is just something that I started to notice at the tail end of Bush 43 administration, and it picked up through the Obama administration, and really took off after Trump was elected.
Why do people say 'Democrat Party' as opposed to the 'Democratic Party'? Is it a shill thing? Is it a liability thing? Are people just retarded, because god knows I cringe every time I see it.
inb4 it doesnt matter lol
They hate it being called the democrat party i.e. at democraticunderground.com, where the DUmmies post.
I’ll go with “retarded" for $300 Alex...
If you see one person of that party, do you call him a Democratic? If you see a group of members of that party, do you refer to them as a bunch of Democratics?
Google> Crat vs Ic >> According to Oxford Dictionaries, the use of Democrat rather than the adjective Democratic "is in keeping with a longstanding tradition among Republicans of dropping the –ic in order to maintain a distinction from the broader, positive associations of the adjective democratic with democracy and egalitarianism".