The comrades at Salon strike again. It seems as if none of the writers at this outfit look in the mirror. What did they say this time?

Trump’s vulgarity is poisoning public life. According to Chauncey DeVega, Trump is the reason public life is toxic in 2026.

DeVega cites a Washington Post (of course) article that analyses Trump’s “violent” rhetoric. WaPo claims profanity is the “hallmark” of Trump’s second term. From WaPo:

Trump’s use of profanity and other crude or demeaning language — including insults such as ‘low IQ,’ which he routinely hurls at political opponents — has risen over time. In the first 1½ years of his first presidency, about 40 percent of his speeches contained at least one vulgar term, compared with about 93 percent in his second term. And the number of vulgar or insulting social media posts has roughly tripled during his second term, compared with a similar period in his first term.

The increasingly coarse rhetoric reflects what historians and presidential scholars describe as a more openly combative second term — one defined by rapid-fire executive actions, public threats against perceived enemies, and a governing style rooted in dominance and confrontation.”-Washington Post

Let’s take the “low IQ” remark, for starters. Trump used this remark to refer to AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Maxine Waters, and, before Democrats can say, “it’s because Trump hates women”, former President, Joe Biden. Let’s put a pin in this for a second. Enter Chauncey DeVega:

In Trump’s first term, about 40% of his speeches contained at least one use of vulgarity. During just the first 16 months of his second term, that figure stands at 93%. The president’s profane or insulting posts on social media have also tripled as compared to his first term. The barrages are coming much later; most of his posts are made between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., indicating the president, who has always been nocturnal, is even more so as he approaches his 80th birthday in June.”-Chauncey DeVega, Salon

This, in some circles, indicates mania or sundowning:

First of all, he’s up at all hours of the night, posting all of these lies and crazy stuff. The pace of It — that someone would be up all night tweeting — is a clinical indicator of some kind of either mania or sundowning.”-Psychologist, John Gartner

(Gasp!) Most of his posts are made between 8pm and 6am! The crazy guy is almost 80. What is he doing up so late? This must be indicative of a mental disorder or something. After all, our last octogenarian President was in bed well before 6:30pm on most nights when he was residing in The White House. No events after 8pm.

DeVega rambles on, all the while, throwing out terms like racist, fascist, misogynist. He avoided nazi and pedophile, though-names used often by the left to describe Donald Trump.

Is it true that Trump lacks a filter? Yes. Is it true that sometimes Trump needs to temper his language? Yes. But saying Trump is the sole reason for “poisoning public life” is quite the stretch, Chauncey. These Democrats act like Trump is the only person in The White House to use profanity. Remember when Biden used the old “stupid son of a bitch” line?

Chauncey DeVega also didn’t bother to read the DNC’s “shut up, you ugly f*ck” tweets on X, either. But, go on, Mr. DeVega. Trump is “poisoning public life”.

The party of civility has spoken. pic.twitter.com/kzCyUCATky

— Hopalong Ginsberg 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@HopalongAsks) May 27, 2026

The party of peace and love. The party of education.

Say what? This coming from the party of peace and love? Let me remind you of some thing as your body shame someone else. pic.twitter.com/FuKhpCInua

— Sunshine Sunnybunz (@SunshineS58469) May 27, 2026

The party of let me hurl insults at you because you voted for Donald Trump. The party of “this is why we can’t be friends”. The party of “disown your conservative relatives and don’t spend holidays with them”. The party of insulting and mocking Christianity. Sure, Trump is “poisoning public life”.

DeVega cites “Slouching Towards Gomorrah,” the 1996 book by federal judge — and failed Supreme Court nominee — Robert Bork.

What I got wrong about the American right was the idea that it succeeded in the 1960s by purging its crazier, more reactionary, more paranoid elements and becoming respectable. Historians are beginning to rethink that formulation, which is really the conservative’s own self-representation. It’s a very self-congratulatory representation. What if the crazy paranoid fringe was in fact the vanguard?”-Robert Bork

DeVega argues that Trump allowed the Republican Party and Conservatives to be their “true selves”. In other words, we Conservatives are poisoning public life. Come again, who Bork-ed public life?

Because nothing says being your “true self” like hating the gender of which you were born. Or killing innocent people as a result of this confusion and angst. Or calling a life, with a heartbeat, a mere “clump of cells”, a “mistake”, an “inconvenience”. Or ignoring, unfriending and uninviting your family members and friends who did not cast their ballots as you did to holiday get-togethers. Or denouncing said holiday because it’s a Christian holiday or an American holiday. Or listening to elitist celebrities and putting their political views on your script. Sodom and Gomorrah? We’re freaking there, man.

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— Ezii~ (@3_ezii) May 28, 2026

To note in the world according to Chauncey DeVega and Salon: the leftists did not poison public life, the right did. Now, Conservatives, Trump supporters, is the mission should you choose to accept it. Put on your red baseball cap and march on with your day. Be your true selves. Hold the door proudly for that septum-pierced angry individual behind you. Smile and say “good morning” to the blue-haired woman with a grocery cart full of Monsters and Lays Potato Chips. Let the bumper-sticker-covered, virtue-signaling Subaru into your lane on the commute home. Let’s see if you get the same pleasantries in return.

Feature Image: Personal Photo by VG, Carol Marks