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Democrat Party is an epithet and pejorative for the Democratic Party of the United States, [1] [2] [3] often used in a disparaging fashion by the party's opponents. [4] While use of the term started out as non-hostile, it has grown in its negative use since the 1940s, in particular by members of the Republican Party—in party platforms, partisan speeches, and press releases—as well as by ...
In the 1930s and 1940s, the term Me-too Republicans described those running on a platform of agreeing with the Democratic Party, proclaiming only minor or moderating philosophical differences. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] An example is two-time presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey , who ran against the popular Franklin D. Roosevelt and his successor Harry ...
These derogatory names first appeared in the 1872 United States presidential election. [5] The terms have multiple meanings. One use is to insult politicians that the speaker believes are too moderate or centrist. This use is similar to saying that a Republican is a "Republican in Name Only" (RINO) or a Democrat is a "Democrat in Name Only ...
Except that the St. Petersburg resident is no longer a Republican. And he is voting for Democrat Kamala Harris. ... "It's trash-talking, name-calling, mocking. I don't understand how that's OK ...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Saturday he does not like Democrats’ newfound rhetorical device of labeling Republicans “weird” in campaign messages. He criticized the approach at a live ...
In U.S. politics, Democrat in name only (DINO) is a pejorative term used to describe politicians of the Democratic Party to indicate that their governing or legislating style is more like a member of the Republican Party. [1] The terms Blue Dog Democrat and Yellow dog Democrat have been more popular than DINO for describing heterodox Democrats. [2]
Democrats’ front-runner and hopeful successor to Cooper, Stein gained name recognition in North Carolina as the state’s attorney general since 2017 and a state senator before that.
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...