Andrew Cuomo is a disgraced governor who got forced out. He’s not a carefully developed machine product but rotting leftovers.

The author is Australian, and may or may not be familiar with the usage of the word Democrat in the U.S.

It is common in American politics to redefine names. So, the Term Democrat is properly a noun. Using it as an adjective i.e. The Democrat Machine rather than The Democratic Machine is only done by the GOP, and as a slur.

Other words with transformed meanings include Patriot and Truth. Compare with Orwell: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein [0]

> It was impossible to translate any passage of Oldspeak into Newspeak unless it either referred to some technical process or some very simple everyday action, or was already orthodox (GOODTHINKFUL would be the Newspeak expression) in tendency. In practice this meant that no book written before approximately 1960 could be translated as a whole. Pre-revolutionary literature could only be subjected to ideological translation—that is, alteration in sense as well as language.

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