To the editor : I appreciate columnist Mark Z. Barabak’s report on the Democratic Convention in Anaheim, but it was very disappointing to read that name-calling and profanity (common with Republicans) have now become the language of Democrats ( “Yelling, finger-pointing and cursing galore as California Democrats gather near Disneyland,” June 2).

President Trump degraded all political rhetoric with his daily cursing and insulting, but I always expected that Democrats would not succumb to his level (remember “when they go low …”?). But now they are calling Trump a “punk” and “the orange oligarch,” and Sen. Adam Schiff even commented, “We say to bullies, you can go f— yourself.” Really? Does he think that makes him sound tougher? It certainly doesn’t make him sound smarter.

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