“We will make America great again.” Donald Trump has changed a lot about American politics. He’s changed the news cycle — “the wild, wild West Wing” — the notion of what separates left and right, and the idea of what it means to be presidential. He’s also changing something else about politics: the way it sounds. “We don’t need to investigate our president. We need to arrest Hillary. Republican Don Blankenship stands with President Trump.” That’s Don Blankenship. He’s a Republican running for Senate in West Virginia. And you’ll probably recognize that rallying cry from Trump’s presidential campaign. Blankenship is hardly the only one parroting the president these days. Here’s Marsha Blackburn, a congresswoman from Tennessee. “I’m politically incorrect and proud of it.” And Todd Rokita from Indiana, another candidate for Senate. “It’s time to build a wall, make English our official language and put America first.” It goes on. “I believe in building the wall and stopping illegal immigration.” They’re also taking on Trump’s crude, sometimes profane, tones. “I’m a fighter pilot, and I talk like one. That’s why I told Washington Republicans to grow a pair of ovaries and get the job done.” It doesn’t always work, especially if it seems forced. Josh Hawley, an Ivy League-educated, former Supreme Court clerk, is about as far from Trump as you can get. But that didn’t stop him from trying to play the part. “Hollywood and Wall Street and the D.C. political establishment — they’ve worked together to rig a system that favors them.” Strategists question whether this is a permanent coarsening of our political dialogue. But that probably depends on whether or not any of these aspiring leaders get elected.