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What’s more surprising it took for this view on women for people to be so shocked and disgusted about Trump. What about all the anti-latino, anti-muslim, anti-foreign rhetoric? [/quote]
I totally agree with this. But the xenophobia you mention isn’t even the biggest reason for people to have been shocked and disgusted about trump long before his latest comments.
In addition to the xenophobia and the misogyny, there are all these shocking and disgusting things:
His wanting nuclear weapons to proliferate.
His insistence that the military will follow illegal orders if he gives them.
His threats not to honor our NATO obligations.
His profound ignorance of foreign affairs (“Putin won’t go into Ukraine,” didn’t know what the nuclear triad is).
His desire to commit war crimes (killing terrorists’ families).
His threats not to pay our debts in full.
His birtherism.
His encouragement of Russian hacking.
His encouragement of violence against protesters and against Clinton.
His constant lying of a type and on a scale not seen in any previous presidential candidate (nor in most humans).
Each of these should cause shock and disgust. Put together, they’re so horrific that to not be shocked and disgusted by them indicates to me willful ignorance (or, more likely, a charade, as I explain in the last paragraph). And they don’t even include smaller reasons, many of them quite large, such as his completely unrealistic deportation force/wall ideas, his fascist tendencies, his claim that America is in a death spiral, his climate change denial, his refusal to release his tax returns, his business failures and his stiffing of thousands of workers, his lack of detailed policies, his draft dodging, his scam “university,” his abuse of his foundation, his desire to police speech, his claim that Obama founded ISIS, his frequently incoherent speech and general lack of intellect and knowledge, his refusal to admit/learn from/apologize for his mistakes, his demagoguery, his desire to abolish the Geneva Convention, and his bullying temperament.
And none of that even includes what is, in my opinion, his biggest, most dangerous flaw:
He can’t take an insult. He attacks anyone who says anything marginally negative about him. How is that going to work? The American president (every American president) is constantly being told his ideas and actions are bad ideas and actions. By citizens, by the news media, by foreign leaders, by other political parties, by people in his own party. By senators, congressmen, governors. Basically by everybody. Donald Trump, if elected president, will have to (because that’s who he is) attack all the people who say bad things about him. How is that going to work? A foreign leader says something negative about a Trump proposal or action. Trump attacks that leader. That leader condemns Trump’s attack. Trump gets angry about that and attacks again. Etc. How is that going to work? How is it going to work to give the nuclear codes to a thin-skinned, ill-tempered, petulant, foolish, ignorant, vindictive, disturbed child?
To be more disturbed by his “grab ‘em by the pussy” comment, vile as it is, than by pretty much everything else about trump, is ridiculous.
But, in a way, it makes sense. Because, in truth, the people who are currently and suddenly expressing shock and disgust aren’t actually suddenly shocked and disgusted. They’ve been shocked and disgusted all along. But, as usual, their concern hasn’t been the governing of this country. It’s been their desire to stay in power. And, before, they thought that Trump could win, so they pretended not to be shocked and disgusted, and they supported him. Now that it looks like he can’t win, they’re suddenly shocked and disgusted. And they claim that their shock and disgust is not about the fact that a Trump presidency would be (to paraphrase his “Art of the Deal” ghostwriter) a mortal danger to humanity . But about the “grab ‘em by the pussy” comment.
