I know it is useful for headline writing in particular, but perhaps the time has come to stop calling the Republican party the GOP? If it ever was grand (and I imagine it was at least in the days of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt), it certainly is no longer. Yes, it's old, but its direct competitor, the Democratic Party, is older for wha…
I know it is useful for headline writing in particular, but perhaps the time has come to stop calling the Republican party the GOP? If it ever was grand (and I imagine it was at least in the days of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt), it certainly is no longer.
Yes, it's old, but its direct competitor, the Democratic Party, is older for whatever that matters, having been founded, you know, by Thomas Jefferson, an actual founding father.
Finally, is it really a party these days, or more of a rebel faction?
Time to place the moniker GOP in the dustbin of vocabulary history, I say.
I know it is useful for headline writing in particular, but perhaps the time has come to stop calling the Republican party the GOP? If it ever was grand (and I imagine it was at least in the days of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt), it certainly is no longer.
Yes, it's old, but its direct competitor, the Democratic Party, is older for whatever that matters, having been founded, you know, by Thomas Jefferson, an actual founding father.
Finally, is it really a party these days, or more of a rebel faction?
Time to place the moniker GOP in the dustbin of vocabulary history, I say.