Over the weekend, Twitter took a turn more PornHub than political, with an extremely profane tweet from Leah McElrath, an evidently left-wing freelancer, gaining traction into Monday. The contents of the tweet, which I won’t relay directly, contrasts somewhat graphic images of a sexually incompetent Michael Avenatti against recent senatorial-loser-turned-Democratic-presidential-hopeful Beto O’Rourke, fantasized as a sexual connoisseur so to speak.

I’m not much of a prude, and if we were discussing the extremely intimate fictionalizations of Presidents Tony Goldwyn or Robin Wright, this really wouldn’t register on the national Richter scale of obscenity. But to objectify and indulge in obsessions over real, tangible political figures is another level of Freudianism. From the beginning of Betomania to the weeping, fawning BuzzFeed lists, we’ve seen adoration for a politician elevate to new levels of insanity. Sure, women loved Slick Willy, and Democrats bragged that President Barack Obama was young and good-looking, but the Daily Dot reported that an Instagram video of O’Rourke preparing a steak was making people “horny.”