The matter of the “Democrat Party” epithet which goes back to Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s and Barry Goldwater in the 1960s, was resurrected by Newt Gingrich in the 1980s, and which was then picked up in the 90s by such reactionary luminaries as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Then in 2017, after becoming president, Trump started using it, I’m assuming he was to told by one one of his toadies that it was an insult, an “own the Libs” thing, he then gleefully started using it every chance he got. Although the epithet had been around long before Trump it wasn’t until Trump started using it that it became de rigueur amongst the faithful. And the press, out of ignorance or just plain laziness, just quotes them with no correcting or without any acknowledgment of the epithet’s history or meaning. I’m not objecting to the term’s use for any partisan pro-Democratic reason, quite the opposite, the objection is to its historically sordid use by the anti-democratic reactionaries.