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answer came back: “You can’t expect the President to turn around 30 years of disastrous economic policies under liberal Democrat administrations overnight.” As time went on the “overnight" became “in three months," then “in six months,” then “in a year” and so on.
Fashionable Phrases
I might add parenthetically it has become fashionable in some circles always to use the terms "Liberal” and “Democrat” together, and always with both words capitalized. Also the word Democrat is preferred as the adjective rather than the grammatically correct Democratic.
Somehow “Democrat" alone is deemed to have a mildly pejorative connotation. The usage was started, 1 think, by Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election. In its spoken form, the two words frequently become one. as in "Liberaldemocrat."
But I digress.
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