Against the rise, literally, of political porn

A Democratic campaign theme and even an advertisement in its closing stretch is a sign, for some of us past the age of 50, that the zeitgeist has completely left us behind.

Not that the zeitgeist’s disdain for our apparently old-fashioned sensibilities wasn’t already obvious. We regularly see open, public vulgarity from presidential candidates of all stripes and see campaign emails, presumably vetted by consultants, full of vulgarities, too. (As a minor example, just as I write this, a message comes across the transom from “J.D. Vance” with the subject line of “It pi**es me off.” What, pray tell, is wrong with “ticks me off?”)