Biden is awful, but cut it out with the public F-bombs and respect the presidency

The assessment has nothing to do with support for Biden or how he is performing as president . Biden is already well on his way to being the worst president in a lifetime. There’s nothing wrong in general with voicing public displeasure about any president’s performance and certainly nothing wrong with doing so against this particular president.

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The problem is twofold. First, public vulgarity itself should be seen as unacceptable. Second, the vulgarity particularly directed at the president is a sledgehammer blow to a worthwhile tradition of respect for the constitutional office of the presidency…

The common culture once understood that “the F-word” could be all the more useful in select private exclamations, specifically because it was so off-limits in the public square. The culture now has trampled traditionalists on that front, as evinced this week when the smart, mainstream-conservative TV host Megyn Kelly on her streaming broadcast referred to Chinese officials as “these f***ers.” She then defended herself (from my gentle complaint) on Twitter by saying, “Every once in a while one needs to drop an F-bomb , Quin. It’s quite cathartic.”

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