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    What the … . ? Trump and 2020 Democrats are cursing a blue streak

    by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Sep 23, 2019 5 minutes

    The subject line, targeting President Donald Trump, was purposely provocative: A string of angry emojis and a call to "dump the (ASTERISK)^(ASTERISK)%#%/!!!!!!!"

    "Sometimes," read the email launching a progressive fund-raising drive, "cursing is required."

    Sometimes actually seems to be quite often, as the path to the White House has become a blue streak of vulgarity, cuss words and four-letter effusions.

    Trump and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker have employed a barnyard-related epithet numerous times. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has offered a crude reworking of his campaign's catch phrase, governors get stuff done. Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke markets T-shirts echoing his profanely stated concern about gun violence and proudly boasts of his off-color vocabulary.

    "I was talking to some people today," he said during a

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