A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Entry from August 11, 2011
Damnocracy (damn + democracy); Damnocrat (damn + Democrat)

“Damnocracy” (damn + democracy) and “Damnocrat” (damn + Democrat) are terms used by people who believe that democracy or Democrats are damnable. “Damnocrat” has been cited in print since at least 1901 and “damnocracy” has been cited in print since at least 1954, but the terms have been used more frequently in the 2000s with the growth of political blogs.
         
 
17 June 1901, Prescott (AZ) Evening Courier, pg. 2:
Gov. Murphy was noticed in Prescott yesterday. They do say these days that the governor gives the straight cold shoulder to old line Yavapai county republicans and levels his most winning smiles upon those who are properly classed as Murphy damnocrats.
 
Google Books
The Acrobats, a novel
By Mordecai Richler
New York, NY: Putnam
1954  
Pg. 56:
In New York, Local 231 of the Toy Makers Union is working overtime to meet the big demand for atomic hats ($3.95 per doz/whsl) for the over-privileged kiddies of American damnocracy.
   
16 April 1964, Oakland (CA) Tribune, “How Li’l Elephants Came to Be That Way” by Al Martinez, pg. 22, col. 6:
As the boys got older, the Pelicans learned to swear and began referring to the Autocrats as the young damn Autocrats, or the Damnocrats, a term slurred over the years to Young Democrats.
 
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Dirty Politics
By Bruce L. Felknor
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
1975, ©1966  
Pg. 64:
In temperance country, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was portrayed endlessly as a whiskey baron: “Kennedy and his 100-proof whiskey damnocrats,” one sheet had it.
 
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From: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Joseph Burger)
Date: 14 May 92 12:10:02 GMT
Local: Thurs, May 14 1992 7:10 am
Subject: Perot—independent dangers and electronic government
 
The only difference with Perot as President would be that both the damnocrats and the repulsicans could claim no blame if something goes wrong.  If we are lucky, there will be a better than 25 percent turnover in the house.
 
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From: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (JBomas)
Date: 1996/01/02
Subject: Re: Liberal Damnocratic lies!!!
 
15 May 1997, Kansas City (MO) Star, pg. C7:
In New Mexico recently a Republican won a congressional seat the GOP has never held. Voters must think of the other party now as the Damnocrats.
     
23 July 1997, Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT), “Reassess political views”:
In our land today, all too many Democrats have become “Damnocrats’’ (advocates of a philosophy and of practices which, if we continue pursuing…
 
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From: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (AtoHakeem)
Date: 1998/03/17
Subject: You might be a DAMNOCRAT if you:
 
10.  Hate Life.
9.  Often cringe in public.
8.  Refer to ‘Christmas’ as ‘X-mas’
7.  Would like to see a One-Party State.
6.  Claim that Bill Clinton is “highly ethical, but - well, he’s no Marion
Barry”.
5.  Never get closer to the opposite sex than to dress like one.
4.  Claim a tax exemption on your profits from cocaine sales.
3.  Spend 9 to 5 watching television.
2.  Think Easter is about bunnies.
1.  Have an in-vitro fertilisation on Federal money…
 
15 December 1998, Kansas City (MO) Star, pg. B7:
AT last count three House Democrats have said theyll vote for impeachment. Or, as they may be known in the White House, “Damnocrats.”
     
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Damn-ocracy-government From Hell!:
The Political, Economic And Money System, After the Devil’s own Heart!

By Wendall Dennis
Victoria, BC: Trafford
2004
Pg. 25:
The interchangeable terms Damn-ocracy/Dam-ocracy— Damn- ocratic/Dam-ocratic and Damn-ocrat/Dam-ocrat; when used in (Pg. 26—ed.) this book as terms best supportive of my contentions, are defined as follows: Any form of government, encompassing Any economic system, staffed by Any individual, too which, or to whom, the descriptions or contentions, are appropriate!
 
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Executive Intelligence Review, July 23, 2007
The guns of August 2007: Cheney’s finger is already on the trigger
by Jeffrey Steinberg
(...)
The ultimate cowardly act was the Democratic Senate capitulation to the “Buckleyite Damn-ocrat” Joe Lieberman’s Iran war gambit.

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