Subject: Re: MTG
iirc, that "democrat" thing was started by Saint Reagan

The derogatory use long predates Reagan.

Addressing a gathering of Michigan Republicans in 1889, New Hampshire Republican Congressman Jacob H. Gallinger said:

The great Democrat party, laying down the sceptre of power in 1860, after ruling this country under free trade for a quarter of a century, left our treasury bankrupt, and gave as a legacy to the Republican party, a gigantic rebellion and a treasury without a single dollar of money in it.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...(epithet)#19th_century