What It Comes To
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD08)↱ makes a brief semantic point:
My version is actually savage, the Républican Party. Or perhaps I try too hard, compared to the "Repubican" juvenilia just hanging there like a pouting opportunity. In any case, like the Distinguished Gentleman from Maryland Eight explained, "But we don't do that." And that part really shouldn't need to be said.
Still, though, toss a coin: Heads, conservatives are just that ignorant. Tails, conservatives are just that petty. Oh, right, the latter does not preclude the former.
Either way, yeah, we kind of knew, already.
Seriously, they've been at it for years; we believe them.
And, yes, pretty much anyone can comprehend the desperate incination to pretend conservatives have nothing to do with the GOP Party¹ in the time of Trump², but the living experience just disagrees.
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Notes:
@Acyn. "Raskin to Boebert: Democrat is the noun. When you use it as an adjective, you say Democratic.. As if every time we mentioned the other party it just came out with a kind of political speech impediment like, oh, the Banana Republican Party." Twitter. 28 February 2023. Twitter.com. 28 February 2023. https://bit.ly/3kIYNQW
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD08)↱ makes a brief semantic point:
… because the Gentlelady was making a grammatical error that I heard some of her colleagues make, before; I believe she referred to a "'Democrat' solution". I heard another member talk about a "'Democrat' member" and a "'Democrat' plan". I just wanted to educate our distinguished colleagues, that "Democrat" is the noun; when you use it as an adjective, you say the "Democratic" member, or the "Democratic" solution, or "Democratic" plan, and so I assume it's a good-faith grammatical error the first few times, but after people are corrected several times, and they continue to say it, it seems like it's an act of incivility, as if every time we mentioned the other party, it just came out with a kind of speech impediment like, oh, the Banana Republican Party. As if we were to say that every time we mentioned the Banana Republican member, or the Banana Republican plan, or the Banana Republican Conference.
My version is actually savage, the Républican Party. Or perhaps I try too hard, compared to the "Repubican" juvenilia just hanging there like a pouting opportunity. In any case, like the Distinguished Gentleman from Maryland Eight explained, "But we don't do that." And that part really shouldn't need to be said.
Still, though, toss a coin: Heads, conservatives are just that ignorant. Tails, conservatives are just that petty. Oh, right, the latter does not preclude the former.
Either way, yeah, we kind of knew, already.
Seriously, they've been at it for years; we believe them.
And, yes, pretty much anyone can comprehend the desperate incination to pretend conservatives have nothing to do with the GOP Party¹ in the time of Trump², but the living experience just disagrees.
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Notes:
¹ A local joke from over a decade ago, since we're having fun with party names. Note for the record, that was how Republicans wanted it. (Hint: That's why it's funny.)
² e.g., the Buckley line; see #3702939↗—
—which came up a few times over a period of weeks, last year; see also #3703059↗, 3703130↗; a variation is included in #3703854↗.
² e.g., the Buckley line; see #3702939↗—
An interesting contrast in recent years is the idea that William F. Buckley Jr. would somehow be distressed by what conservatism has become, but if we consider what the proposition means, the actual point that would trouble him is the lack of subtlety.
—which came up a few times over a period of weeks, last year; see also #3703059↗, 3703130↗; a variation is included in #3703854↗.
@Acyn. "Raskin to Boebert: Democrat is the noun. When you use it as an adjective, you say Democratic.. As if every time we mentioned the other party it just came out with a kind of political speech impediment like, oh, the Banana Republican Party." Twitter. 28 February 2023. Twitter.com. 28 February 2023. https://bit.ly/3kIYNQW