2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumA candidate apparently can say whatever you want about Mexicans, Hispanics & Black people...
oberliner
(58,724 posts)He has been saying things like this about white women for decades, and no one cared.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Talk about anybody else all you want and call them what you want. But to the GOP leadership, when you start talking about white women, that crosses the line.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)And no one cared.
There are countless stories about him treating white women this way, and they were ignored.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Because I don't get it either. After all the things he said, this is what they have a huge problem with? Why not with all the other things he said?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I don't know. It is bizarre. You can listen to any of his interviews with Howard Stern over the years and hear much the same sort of talk (directed at prominent white women, such as Princess Diana, for example, who he says he "could have nailed" .
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Maybe his comments finally reached a critical mass?
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)I think that is what did it. Went from "I could have nailed ___," which is disgusting, disrespectful and objectifying, to grabbing women's private parts against their will.
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)It isn't just the GOP. Many of my so-called liberal friends have been largely silent until now, even though they weren't Trump supporters. But NOW, he's talking about 51% of the population and so they are highly offended. It's insidious.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)He's been doing that for decades.
mucifer
(23,547 posts)He bragged about his own sexual assault.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)It's the sexual assault aspect of the entire thing.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)Croney
(4,661 posts)nolabear
(41,984 posts)I'm not excusing any disgusting thing he's said. And for the GOP who are bailing you might be right. But for many of us it's like hearing someone confess to an assault and the intention of assaulting more, in the most giggling, heinous way imaginable.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)on and on.... But, it does seem that he has reserved his ultimate disdain for women--of every race and ethnicity-- and especially those he does not believe to be "F-worthy"....