Driven Mad by Trump: Democrats Curse, Yell, Flip the Bird

President Donald Trump seems to bring out the worst in Democrats, whose language has become increasingly vulgar as their opposition to the president becomes more frenzied.

John Burton, the outgoing chairman of California’s Democratic Party, said, “f**ck Donald Trump,” while holding up two middle fingers, during the state party convention over the weekend.

“[W]e’re here to help people, and if we’re not helping people, we should go the f**k home.”

Burton received a standing ovation from the crowd, many of whom joined him in his crude sign language.

But Burton is not the only Democrat to have enthusiastically employed vulgarity in the age of Trump.

Earlier this month, rising Democratic star Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) criticized controversial comments made by Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Fla.) about health care while she was speaking at an event in San Francisco.

“Like this guy, this congressman, you might as well say, ‘People don’t starve because they don’t have food.’ What the f**k is that?” Harris said.

Recently anointed Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez has earned a reputation for swearing during public appearances. During a March appearance before the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, Perez claimed that Republicans “don’t give a sh*t about people.”

Perez would go on to repeat the mantra often during his spring “unity tour,” and the DNC began selling t-shirts emblazoned with the message, “Democrats give a sh*t about people.”

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In April, Democratic Sen. Kristin Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who is often held up as an inspirational female role model in the party and a natural successor to Hillary Clinton, revealed herself to be just as foul-mouthed as her peers.

“[W]e’re here to help people, and if we’re not helping people, we should go the f**k home,” Gillibrand said during an interview with New York magazine in April.

Gillibrand made frequent use of the word during the interview, also telling the magazine that she had “no f**king clue” about how to pass legislation when she first entered office, and that she once dreamt she forgot to “f**king order” some Girl Scout cookies from a friend.

The rhetoric of the Democratic Party’s most prominent figures has certainly fallen a long way from the lofty language employed by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.