Jennifer Rubin: Do women still have a place in the GOP?

Jennifer Rubin: Do women still have a place in the GOP?

By Jennifer Rubin at the Post Gazette

http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2016/10/30/Jennifer-Rubin-Do-women-still-have-a-place-in-the-GOP/stories/201610300120

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Is there a pattern here? White, unhinged men, most well past their prime, acting abusively toward women.

It is remarkable the company Mr. Trump keeps and how these men find solace in each other’s company. In their fury and contempt for women, they reveal how uncivilized they are. They occupy space far outside the norms of polite society, one in which women are there to do as the men want and are called liars, nasty and devious if they object. Mr. Trump and company use power to go after people they perceive as weaker than they are. They assume that women can be taunted, abused and kept quiet.

As Michelle Obama said: “I have to tell you that I listen to all this, and I feel it so personally. And I’m sure that many of you do, too — particularly the women. The shameful comments about our bodies. The disrespect of our ambitions and intellect. The belief that you can do anything you want to a woman? It is cruel. It is frightening.”

Now, within the Republican Party, this behavior is not disqualifying. Its presidential nominee has established a new, grotesque standard for how leaders and their team talk and act toward women. He loses neither the party’s support nor the respect of his sycophants in the right-wing media and elsewhere.


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