This is not a matter of ideology, it is a matter of grammar.

We have two major political parties in the United States. They are the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Republican Party holds to those values that strengthen our Republic (strictly speaking, that's the government itself and the nation as a whole). The Democratic Party hold to values that strengthen and promote values to support individual freedom and power in the voice of democracy. It would be overstating the case to say that either party ignores the values of the other party and it is silly to say that these are the only things that each party holds dear. These should be thought of more as founding principles that explain the wya you might expect each party to respond to a problem.

Members of the Republican Party are called Republicans. Members of the Democratic Party are called Democrats. But Fox News, for quite some time, has been distorting our language by incorrectly calling the party of the Democrats "the Democrat Party."

Have we truly entered into such a time in our history where ideology becomes more important the proper grammar? A Democrat party would be a party thrown by a Democrat and where probably he or she invited other Democrats.

I suppose the argument in their favor goes something like- "We don't want to confuse our audience into thinking Republicans are not democratic." They probably know the intelligence of their audience better than I do.