Recording threatening to bracket Republican individual as bigoted (14)
I believe the answer is:
discriminatory
'bigoted' is the definition.
'recording threatening to bracket republican individual' is the wordplay.
'recording' becomes 'disc' (disc is a kind of recording).
'threatening' becomes 'minatory' ('minatory' can be a synonym of 'threatening').
'to bracket' is an insertion indicator.
'republican' becomes 'r' (abbreviation).
'individual' becomes 'i'.
'disc'+'minatory'='discminatory'
'r'+'i'='ri'
'discminatory' placed around 'ri' is 'DISCRIMINATORY'.
'as' is the link.
(Other definitions for discriminatory that I've seen before include "Showing prejudice" , "Biased" , "showing bias" , "Partial" .)