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我们可以看出样本中，自由主义与保守主义的诋毁词汇数量几乎相当，但用于攻击自由主义的诋毁词汇更为多样；在对保守主义的诋毁词汇中，出现频率最高的是“extremist极端分子”，比用于自由主义的诋毁词汇“hack骇客”的使用频率高出三倍。在这个哀叹党派纷争的时期，即使那些关于极端主义意识形态的词汇（如“extremist极端分子”,“ideologue空想家”，“radical激进分子”，“zealot狂热分子”）成为最常用的批判术语也不足为奇。同样，因缺乏文明而大肆嘲讽的政治话语显得有些愚蠢与非理性。双方使用这些词语相互攻击，自由主义容易被保守主义叫做“morons白痴”，“fools傻子”，以及”loons废物”，保守主义则常被自由主义嘲讽为“nutjobs蠢货”，“nuts疯子”和“lunatics精神病”。而“Idiot笨蛋”是双方都喜欢用的诋毁词汇。

The type of adjective favored in insulting phrases varied by partisan affiliation as well. People insulting conservatives favored the adjective right-wing, which was more than twice as common as Republican and nearly four times more common than conservative. In contrast, the dominant adjective in negative epithets for liberals was— liberal. Liberal was used more than four times as often as left-wing, and Democrat and Democratic accounted for only a fraction of the insults for liberals, with the former used twice as often as the latter. Grammatically speaking, the preference for Democrat over Democraticas a modifier is perplexing, since Democratic is an adjective whereas Democrat is a noun (used attributively). However, it is in keeping with a longstanding tradition among Republicans of dropping the –ic in order to maintain a distinction from the broader, positive associations of the adjective democratic with democracy and egalitarianism.诋毁类词汇中的形容词也会根据政党关系的变化而变化。诋毁保守主义的人会倾向使用形容词“right-wing右翼的”，其使用频率是 “共和的Republican”的两倍多，几近“保守的conservative”的四倍。而在对于自由主义的诋毁中，占主导地位的负面形容词为“liberal自由主义的”，其使用率比“left-wing左翼的”高出四倍。“Democrat民主人士”和“Democratic民主的”仅占诋毁自由主义词汇的一小部分，前者的使用频率是后者的两倍。从语法上看，较词汇“Democratic民主的”而选择“Democrat民主人士”有些令人费解，因为 “Democratic”是形容词而 “Democrat”是名词（被修饰）。然而，它合乎共和党长期以来摒弃“ic”的传统，以便与形容词“democratic民主的”更宽泛积极的寓意，既“民主与平等”，区分开来。