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In the novel, Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the Democratic presidential nomination to Buzz Windrip, who is described as “vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily discredited,” but wins the election in a landslide.

I don’t feel surprised at all about this clear authoritarian direction of this new, even more radical and vulgar form of Trumpism.

“The short answer is speech, even the vulgar and disgusting speech that this guy is using, is protected by our Constitution,” he said.

Their mischievous, vulgar entertainments are essentially mainstream, though this may just be because their movies have redefined what is mainstream — “movies,” not “films.”

From myriad vectors, media outlets put women in their place for being uppity, incompetent, or vulgar.