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Could people with contacts among the international #press corps please inform them that the adjective form of “Democrat”—as in a politician of the #US Democratic Party—is “Democratic,” not “Democrat”? Patrick Wintour in the Guardian today refers to US “Democrat politicians” at the Munich Security Conference. It would be helpful if he and colleagues learned that this mode of reference is a long-standing right-wing slur implying that #Democrats are “commies,” put quaintly. https://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/the-democratic-or-democrat-party/