Search https://founders.archives.gov/ for democracy and it's pretty clear they hated democracy, use the word only as a put-down.
But in the 20th century, it was used as a good word.
When did the change happen? Cold War? Civil War?
Search https://founders.archives.gov/ for democracy and it's pretty clear they hated democracy, use the word only as a put-down.
But in the 20th century, it was used as a good word.
When did the change happen? Cold War? Civil War?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States) - this was founded in 1828 so I guess it had stopped being a bad word by then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party - the Democratic-Republican Party never really existed; that's just a name made up by historians.
Yes, there was never a party called "the democratic-republican party" there was just the old republican party, which split to form the democratic party and the republican party we know today. But that's confusing to people, so historians teach it as having existed. However, they also tend to generally say that the actual name was the republican party. They're trying to emphasize that the democratic party wasn't some splinter group that barely accounted for many people in the party. The split was catastrophic, with neither side retaining all of its original ideals.