I'm writing a letter to
the Talking Politics podcast about a weird thing I've noticed:
Hello. I've enjoyed your podcast for about a year now. I enjoy your historically-informed perspective as well as your calm British demeanor, particularly when it comes to US issues, which are often quite heated, here in the US.
One thing I'm curious about: I've noticed Helen Thompson refers to the Democratic Party (US) as "the Democrat Party." This is usually an epiphet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet) ) used by right-wingers in the United States to describe the Democratic Party. Fox News in particular has made a big push to normalize the term.
In using this term, is Helen signaling that she subscribes to a rightist viewpoint? Or is it that she has absorbed the term from news sources, as, perhaps, Republican strategists have intended?
I pasted that into their contact form. I have no idea if that goes anywhere.