According to History.com, “As early as the 1870s, politicians and newspapers began to refer to the Republican Party as both ...

(Democrats had used "grand old party" to describe their much-older party in 1859 and 1860.) Some Republican publications experimented with Gallant Old Party in the 1880s, but use of the initials ...

The Republican Party of my youth had values, like law and order. The new party has a criminal leader who believes it’s OK to beat, choke, spray with chemicals ...