I'm sure you've all seen the Grammarly analysis of remarks made by the fans of various presidential candidates and how often they made mistakes.
I know myself. I'm just as guilty of being lazy when it comes to grammar and that I'm prone to frequent typos when replying. I'll skip words entirely, or put the complete wrong word in a sentence. So unless they were talking about all intensive purposes or liberal loosers* , it's kind of a non-issue to me.
The issue for me is that without common ground in language, it's impossible to communicate and there are some words and phrases that are being used in ways that make no sense to me.
* Those two common errors make me flinch every time I see them.
Accountability
You should be accountable for your actions, equally accountable. If you are a criminal, you should be held accountable, if you are a police officer who misused your authority and acted unconstitutionally with someone you suspected of a crime, you should be held accountable. If you're in any position of public trust, than you need to be held to a higher standard. That's part of making this country great.
Let's not even talk about big corporations, banks and politicians and accountability. That will make this even longer than it's been already.
Common Sense
... is an oxymoron. Because it's certainly not common anymore. See facts.
If you are arguing your "common sense" against verifiable facts, you might be wrong.
Conservative
To conserve things means to save them. To not waste it or destroy it. To take a long view with an eye towards safety. It seems like making environmentally sound choices is the most conservative thing anyone can do. Protect waterways, reduce plastic use, and stop destructive mining practices.
Constitutionalism
The Constitution is NOT multiple choice. You don't get to keep the First Amendment when it's convenient and hold the Second and Tenth sacred always and ignore the rest. The Second Amendment and Tenth Amendment do NOT trump the First, Fourth or Fifth Amendment. All citizens are granted those rights by our Constitution, and you don't get to vote away their rights because it makes you uncomfortable.
Facts
This doesn't even seem like something that should need defining, but apparently it does because it means different things to different people. It's a fact that Fox news is frequently caught lying. Lies are not facts. A fact is something that can be backed with hard data. An opinion is how you feel about a fact. If your opinion is the fact is wrong, you need to go back and reconsider the hard data or find data of your own. If you get your data from a source that's known to lie, you may be wrong and need to find more facts. A fact doesn't change just because you disagree with it.
Make America Great Again
See Patriotism.
Of course we want to see America be great. We want it to be great for everyone. We want to see people have equal opportunities, we want to see more people be able to afford a home, to afford medical care. We aren't looking at bringing back Mad Men, but instead of making good on the promise possible when we are working towards a community and country that work for everyone.
Patriotic-
To me, a patriot is someone who loves our country. They love it enough to vote in every election, even the tiny municipal elections and for school board seats when they don't have a child in the local school system. A Patriot is a person who loves what this country represents and wants to see it live up to it's promise. It's the veteran I'm married to, and it's my mother who helped counsel draft evaders during Vietnam and marched in protests. It's the people who love and believe in this country and it's potential so strongly that they are willing to do their part to make it great.
So that one is easy. It's not party specific. No one party has the lock on patriotism and shouldn't claim it.
I may wind up updating this list later.