Rebecca Traister writes at New York’s website:
Republicans are not shocked [by the allegations against Trump]; they’re scared. Donald Trump is losing and they are beginning to understand that his loss is going to expose them, not simply to partisan defeat, but as a party that has been covert in its cohesion around the very biases that he makes coarse and plain. . . .
Which is worse: Threatening to grab someone by the pussy or forcing someone to carry and give birth to a baby that is the result of rape? Which is worse: Popping a Tic Tac in preparation for forced extramarital kissing with a stranger or actively discouraging women’s full participation in the workforce? The answer is: None of these is worse; they are all of a kind.
So we’re to believe that Trump’s ugliness toward women discredits all conservative positions on everything. That these positions, whether or not Trump has even taken them, are all “of a kind.” That disagremeent with the Paycheck Fairness Act is the same as “actively discouraging women’s full participation in the workforce.” And that Republicans all secretly agree with this left-wing feminist take on the world and are frightened they’re going to be exposed.
This is something that could be written only from inside a left-wing bubble.






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