From the start of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged “total change,” delivering his promises with a scorched-earth political vocabulary — “Lyin’ Ted,” “Crooked Hillary,” “drain the swamp,” “lock her up,” The Washington Post reported.

Some found his language appalling, but others found it refreshing enough to make him president.

Now, in the Oval Office, Trump and his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, have moved beyond the campaign’s embrace of political incorrectness to shake official Washington with a new vocabulary. Bannon rails against the “corporatist, globalist media.” Trump talks about “a global power structure.”

“The populist rhetoric is so systemic, it’s hard to believe it’s not a deliberate effort to change the language of politics,” said Oklahoma congressman Tom Cole.

As the newspaper noted, the purpose of the new rhetoric is to break through the partisan paralysis of recent years, pull the country into an America-first nationalism and persuade Trump supporters that the new president meant it when he announced at his inauguration that “the hour of action” has commenced.