"The young people staffing Republican politicians and organizing young conservative groups are a notoriously noxious bunch, with racism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism simply part of the waters they’re all swimming in. Speaker Mike Johnson is a religious fundamentalist who worked to keep gay sex criminal, opposes no-fault divorce, and is himself in a 'covenant marriage,' which Moira Donegan at the Guardian aptly describes" (continued in /6)
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"Most of us probably believed that child sex abuse — engaging in or covering for — was a red line for just about everyone. But why should Trump, whose appeal is that he doesn’t play by any rules, have to abide by this one?
Today’s Republican Party, though, is avowedly misogynist; it is a party that has built itself into a temple of white male grievance, and that promises not just to help white men get good jobs back, but to get impunity back —"
"the freedom to behave as abhorrently as they wish, to treat women however they wish, to take the jobs that women and people of color rightfully earned simply because there is a presumption of white male deservedness. Some of the highest-ranking members of the Trump administration not only attend churches where the pastors say women shouldn’t be allowed to vote and must submit to male authority, but share videos making those same arguments."
"The young people staffing Republican politicians and organizing young conservative groups are a notoriously noxious bunch, with racism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism simply part of the waters they’re all swimming in. Speaker Mike Johnson is a religious fundamentalist who worked to keep gay sex criminal, opposes no-fault divorce, and is himself in a 'covenant marriage,' which Moira Donegan at the Guardian aptly describes" (continued in /6)
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"as 'a religious arrangement that formalizes men’s superiority and constricts women’s freedom to leave, designed for conservative straight couples who feel that no-fault divorce and gay marriage rights somehow degrade their own unions.' Men who see women as subservient, who believe that men have ultimate authority, and who intentionally set up systems of total male power and impunity —"
#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #misogyny
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