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TRUMP DEFENDS ALLEGED WIFE BEATER
FROM THE BUSINESS INSIDER
President Donald Trump said he was "surprised" by [two] allegations of physical and emotional abuse against Rob Porter... from two ex-wives.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday. "He worked very hard... "We certainly wish him well. It's obviously a tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the White House, and we hope he has a wonderful career."
Colbie Holderness, who was married to Porter from 2003 to 2008, has provided photos to news outlets of a black eye she says he gave her, while Jennifer Willoughby, Porter's wife from 2009 to 2013, provided a copy of a 2010 protective order she filed against him...
[Trump said, ]"He says he's innocent, and I think you have to remember that," Trump said. "He said very strongly yesterday that he's innocent."
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-defends-rob-porter-abuse-allegations-ex-wives-hope-hicks-2018-2
FROM THE ECONOMIST
If Mr Trump has a calculation, it is that sticking it to a lot of self-righteous Democratic women will cost him little support among women who vote Republican, while delighting their husbands.
That is logical.
His defeat of Mrs Clinton showed the great extent to which partisan loyalty trumps genders. Hardly any Republican women, who tend to be older than Democrats and more conservative in their views on gender relations, among other things, voted for her.
Yet mid-terms are not won by wooing the other side’s supporters, but by whichever party turns out its own voters. On that basis Mr Trump appears to have handed the Democrats an enormous advantage.
By inspiring so many new candidates to come forward—as “an outraged sorority”, in Mrs Houlahan’s phrase—he has helped the party remedy one of its biggest weaknesses, the shallowness of its bench.
In the process, the confusion of left-wing groups that have been leading the opposition to Mr Trump, including Emily’s List and Indivisible, a grass-roots group which introduced many of the newbie candidates to activism, has started to coalesce. Moreover, as the surge in women candidates also suggests, Mr Trump’s chauvinism may have stirred up Democratic voters across the board.
Nice to #MeToo
There are reasons to wonder whether they will remain energised.
Whereas Democratic voters turned out in droves for Virginia’s recent legislature elections, and elected many women candidates there, they showed less enthusiasm for New Jersey’s elections, held the same day. That was because its governor’s race (won by Phil Murphy, a bland Democrat) was uncompetitive. This suggests the gender war is not sufficient to motivate many Democratic voters.
Yet in the mid-terms, a more straightforward verdict on Mr Trump, that will be a lesser problem. And no one should bet against the president causing more chauvinist scandals to refresh Democrats’ sense of outrage. If there is an issue on which Mr Trump’s unreconstructed personality could backfire, it is this.
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The article above clearly points out that The Orange Menace hasn't been nearly as successful at spinning gender issues to his advantage as he has been at spinning race and racism to his advantage.
White supremacy is easier to use, I suppose. So many in the population have been trained since birth to believe that nothing but the n-word and cross burnings are truly racism. That's why it's taken so long for white progressives to see that Trump is obviously a racist.
The KKK endorsing his candidacy in 2016 wasn't enough. The KKK's David Duke cheering Trump's remarks about Charlottesville wasn't enough for the mostly white press to straight up call Trump a racist. It took him calling damn near all black-majority countries "shitholes" for the predominantly white press to even use the word "racism" and directly attach it to Trump's words.
Even so, I won't say the white press has been more aggressive with women's issues. Or maybe it has been because it's just impossible to spin rape, sexual blackmail that's practically rape, and men exposing themselves to female subordinates for sexual kicks at the workplace.
Maybe Trump can't spin that kind of crap either, especially when another woman with another type of abuse issue comes along and says 'Hey, your aide gave me this black eye and did it to another ex-wife too. '
White supremacy is easier to use, I suppose. So many in the population have been trained since birth to believe that nothing but the n-word and cross burnings are truly racism. That's why it's taken so long for white progressives to see that Trump is obviously a racist.
The KKK endorsing his candidacy in 2016 wasn't enough. The KKK's David Duke cheering Trump's remarks about Charlottesville wasn't enough for the mostly white press to straight up call Trump a racist. It took him calling damn near all black-majority countries "shitholes" for the predominantly white press to even use the word "racism" and directly attach it to Trump's words.
Even so, I won't say the white press has been more aggressive with women's issues. Or maybe it has been because it's just impossible to spin rape, sexual blackmail that's practically rape, and men exposing themselves to female subordinates for sexual kicks at the workplace.
Maybe Trump can't spin that kind of crap either, especially when another woman with another type of abuse issue comes along and says 'Hey, your aide gave me this black eye and did it to another ex-wife too. '
It looks like Tarana Burke's #MeToo movement has spun up and become powerful, leading to the creation of some no spin zones in politics.
Here's to hoping women are Trump's undoing in the 2018 and 2020 elections
Here's to hoping women are Trump's undoing in the 2018 and 2020 elections
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