What do you mean Republicans are saying the name of their party wrong?
“Their” in that context meaning the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party. As an exercise, go through any official Republican press release, speech by a Republican national candidate, or opinion piece by a Republican political operative, for the past ten years, and see if you can find even one saying the words “Democratic Party” when talking about their opposition. Just one reference using the actual name of a major US political party in the age of the Internet when anyone can look anything up, shouldn’t be a problem, right? Yeah, not so much. Now go back thirty years, and the same exercise is easy.
They once got it right every single time, and then suddenly they all got it wrong every single time. Staying on message is one thing the Republicans tend to do very well, even for petty name-calling. Shit, look at Freedom Fries or Death Taxes or whatnot. They even rode with Homicide Bombers for a week or so when even their own people couldn’t bear how stupid it sounded from the get-go. They practically have their own Newspeak division.
Although calling them the ‘Democrat Party’ was an insult by Republicans, it has been so ingrained in their speech patterns that they probably think theirs is the ‘proper’ way of saying it. There’s some sense to that after all. The Republicans and the Republican party are the same word, so it makes sense that the Democrats and the Democrat party would follow the same rule. It’s stupid, sure. But at least there’s some consistency in that thought.
Oh I get that after so many years, it’s ingrained and people have even been raised never knowing it by another name so it probably sounds wrong when it’s said correctly. But the point is that it was a conscious choice to do things wrong, in an attempt to goad Dems into wasting their time being pedantic and correct instead of talking about issues. You think Dubya didn’t really know how to pronounce “nuclear”? That was as rehearsed as his fake Texas accent, designed to make him seem the poor everyman, beset by the mocking self-righteous intelligentsia. And it worked.
So when you make fun of Trump, don’t do it about the P’s and Q’s. Just stick to the pee.
I am not so sure it is all rehearsed and a conscious choice and whatnot. I honestly think W. Bush could not pronounce “nuclear”. I also honestly think Trump is a dope.