Apparently his defense is the women are just too ugly to muster his attention. And "The Donald" keeps digging his hole deeper and deeper. He's got another 3 weeks to go. We'll just have see how low he will go. I wouldn't be surprised to see him in Russia sometime soon.
There is a certain morbid fascination. I've escalated from "pro wrestling" to describing the Trump campaign one for the internet troll. This has pretty much explained most of what I'm seeing; he really does seem to be imitating the conservative internet discourse bubble.
But this? If I had said, even as my "candidate of the internet troll" rhetoric came together, the phrase, "President Gaslight", I don't know, it just seems like I would have been pushing too hard.
But the deep-throated flame jobs Trump has been putting up pretty much brings the point home.
And the weird thing is that this really is too simplistic. After watching the racist ejaculations from the right in response to Barack Obama's candidacy, election, and presidency, it would have been very easy to suggest, even with the standard bigotry of Walker, Huckabee, and Carson, at least, that Republicans would respond to Hillary Clinton's candidacy with sexism and chauvinism, really, at what point before it started happening would it have been not inappropriate to predict that the Republican path to victory against the likely first female president of the United States would, in the Republican candidate's eyes, run straight through the the gasfields.
Donald Trump's campaign is simply about traditional subject classes getting too uppity. As women verge on electing themselves a female president, traditionalist angrily scramble to find a way to beat them back into place. And that beating
will become literal.
But while it's true that we really,
really need to sit down, as a society, and talk this part out―I'm sorry, conservatives, this isn't one of those things where you can demand compromise, so get it through your skulls that human rights are human rights are human rights and get the hell off your mothers and sisters and daughters, a'ight?―we also need to make clear that exactly none of that discussion should pretend that there is anything acceptable about the spectacle the GOP is putting on. Even the factions of the Party that are fleeing the Donald are managing to achieve a certain lack of grace.
That is to say, we get that Donald Trump is extreme, that he is shocking and horrifying and appalling and worse than anyone could have reasonably imagined, but it behooves us to bear in mind at all times that when the arsonist says he's sorry, that he didn't mean to blow up six blocks of the city, (A) he's not actually sorry, because that was a hell of a gratifying inferno; (B) nothing about that apology should skip over the fact that regardless of the subsequent explosion, he
was setting the building on fire with the intention of destroying it.
I get that even conservatives are taken aback by the magnitude of the spectacle, and discovering what these attitudes sound like when promoted from such prestigious pulpits as the threshold of the presidency. But that doesn't change the fact that there is nothing surprising about the fact that American conservative is saturated with such hatred and greed.
Donald Trump is essentially not afraid to say all the things Republicans know shouldn't be said in public.
Grab her by the pussy? Because you can? Because you're too rich and famous and powerful for them to fight back? Yeah, that's my Republican Party, right there. I'm forty-three, and there isn't a day when my American experience has been devoid of this simmering
hatred. Donald Trump simply isn't afraid to say what he thinks, and unlike a Todd Akin or Richard Mourdock or Josh Koster or Tom Smith, this is a presidential candidate, so the GOP can't paper it over. Because all Donald Trump is actually saying is what traditional American male chauvinism has believed pretty much the whole time. When it's some dumbassed House or Senate candidate, there is some room to maneuver and pretend the Party doesn't really believe or think like that. But this?
Donald Trump has pushed so hard as to shame those who would still support him. They're only abandoning ship when they run out of ways to defend him; as much as many Republicans would have us believe this isn't really part of the Party, it is, and it's been here my whole life, and it's strong enough to secure Donald Trump a presidential nomination.
Something goes here about the number of conservatives I've encountered over the years, including some of our neighbors at Sciforums through the years who showed bruised, even weeping egos because it's just not fair to use dirty words like "misogynist", and so on. It's not so much that "I was right" or anything like that; being "right" on this occasion would make me approximately average for people who aren't conservatives, and the thing about shooting fish in a barrel is that it still feels like a bully routine―kind of like it becomes possible to feel sorry for your college football rival―despite the perception of genuine high stakes. And there really is no satisfaction in thinking back on those self-righteous assholes; those scrambling to figure out what just happened to their Party will only be able to do so if they are honest enough―a trait absent from what I have witnessed―with themselves about the history and nature of their beliefs, and those whose egos are irreparably contused because someone called them a bigot for defending misogyny or racism or other forms of supremacism are probably enraged, because how dare those dirty liberals something something something.
What isn't really happening is some warped-genius plot to identify and excise the dangerous elements in the Republican Party. That is to say, these voters will remain in good stead with the Party, who will still want their ballots again in two years.
Many Republicans will try to tell us about how they stood up to Donald Trump, and maybe a few of them will have some aspect of honor to stand on for how and when they stood up. We'll know, though, by the midterm whether this significant swath of Republican support pretending to be appalled is genuine or not.
I'm guessing the midterm is going to be ugly as hell. All of this GOP denunciation of Trump is a swindle.
But I really do hope my conservative neighbors prove me wrong.
