Women Are Cutting Donald Trump Down To Size, And He Can't Stand It
After gaining steadily in the polls for several weeks, Donald Trump has plummeted once again. One of his more recent collapses was precipitated by his disastrous performance in the debates with Hillary Clinton, as well as an ill-advised feud with Alicia Machado, a former Miss Universe. There’s something deeper going on here, though. It is women who are taking Trump down, and he cannot stand this.
Trump is a misogynist, and his record of sexism is sufficiently well-documented. For the majority of his life, and perhaps the entirety of his professional life, this hasn’t been a barrier to his success. When he said in 1991, for instance, that negative press coverage doesn’t matter “as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass,” it didn’t hurt business. There were no consequences the next year, when said “you have to treat [women] like shit,” or 10 years later, when he told a woman that she was “disgusting” for pumping breast milk.
Put simply, Trump has spent most of his life occupying realms in which it was perfectly acceptable to be a gleeful misogynist. But running for president is different from running a business. It has a different set of standards and norms, and generally requires candidates to at least attempt to avoid coming off as unrepentant sexists.
Trump has not been able to do this. When he said during the primaries that Carly Fiorina shouldn’t be president because of “that face,” it resulted in one of his worst moments in any of the primary debates. When he said that Clinton got “schlonged” by Barack Obama in 2008, it dominated the news cycle for days. When he suggested that Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly was tough on him because she was menstruating, it became a weeks-long controversy. As a result of these and other incidents, Trump developed a hideous favorability rating among women, and it’s stayed hideous throughout the entire campaign.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/187149-women-are-cutting-donald-trump-down-to-size-and-he-cant-stand-it?utm_source=FBOnsite&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=1
Looks like his extreme misogyny is going to be his downfall. He's run into women he couldn't intimidate, humiliate, and silence.
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