They literally call themselves democrats. That's their primary identity to the average person. "Democratic Party" and "Democratic representative" are rarely u

They literally call themselves democrats. That's their primary identity to the average person. "Democratic Party" and "Democratic representative" are rarely uttered outside the circle of democrats even by democrats. Democrat party is just a shortened form of party of the democrats. Why would any normal person refer to it to anything other than the democrat party when "democrat" is word most associated with the party? The democrats set themselves up as the democrat party.