I Do Solemnly Swear: How Profanity Has Taken Hold of American Politics
2nd March 2026
“Respectfully, f–k off.” Those words by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s spokesperson, Izzy Gardon, summed up the current race to the bottom of American politics.
And that race has been spearheded, at least during my lifetime, by Left wing degenerates—in addition to everything else they’ve done to corrupt our public social space.
Democrats appear in a competition of the profane where voters are now subject to a virtual carpet-bombing of f-bombs and other indecent language.
Gardon’s response was to a standard media inquiry after Newsom’s controversial statement to a black interviewer.
And there it is.
There was a time when political leaders maintained basic standards of civility and avoided profanity in public.
That ship has sailed.