'Not Democratic. It’s Democrat. We have to do that. . . . I [like] to say in the speech, the ‘Democrat Party,’ because it doesn’t sound good. But that’s all the more reason I use it, because it doesn’t.'
President Trump would prefer his supporters refer to the opposition party that way. During a rambling, two-hour speech Saturday, Trump referred to one of his critics as “the new star of the Democrat Party,” and to “the new Democrat platform” and “Democrat lawmakers.”
But references to “the Democrat Party” — and variants in which “Democrat” is used as a modifier — have been around for decades, rising and falling over the years. It’s mostly a Republican thing, a way to needle Democrats. According to the late New York Times political columnist and language aficionado William Safire, Minnesota Gov. Harold Stassen urged Republican nominee Wendell Wilkie to use the phrase during the 1940 presidential campaign. Stassen, who managed Wilkie’s campaign, told Safire in 1984 that he did so to emphasize that the Democratic Party wasn’t especially democratic — that it was controlled by party bosses and big-city political machines.
President George W. Bush repeatedly employed it during his years in office, including in his 2007 State of the Union speech , though it wasn’t always clear Bush was trying to get under Democrats’ skins. After Democrats complained about his use of it, Bush joked in a speech to House Democrats, “Now look, my diction isn’t all that good. I have been accused of occasionally mangling the English language. And so I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party.
In September, he upped the rhetorical ante, saying in a speech, “When you see ‘Democratic Party,’ it’s wrong. There’s no name, ‘Democratic Party.’”Democratic National Committee spokesman Daniel Wessel says Trump is engaging in “name calling” by corrupting the party’s name. He called it “a weak attempt to try to distract from the fact that he’s done nothing on the issues that matter most to voters, like lowering prescription drug prices or increasing access to quality, affordable health care.
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