The dozens of accusations of sexual assault and harassment levied against Donald Trump over the years are inseparable from his political identity. But Trump has also endorsed several candidates for office who have been accused by those who know them of domestic violence, threatening behavior or sexual harassment.
The left want to define traditional masculinity as toxic. They want to define the traditional masculine virtues – things like courage and independence and assertiveness – as a danger to society.
And the GOP stays silent. The RW are all being painted with the woman beater brush and they do nothing. By tomorrow the toxic men of the GOP will be bragging about beating their wives and kids and killing their pets. Dems are handling this just right. Let the RW stew in their own juices.
Last week Madison Cawthorne urged mothers with boys to “raise monsters.” Sure he was trolling, some, maybe, but…Trumpworld pretty clearly selects for male monsters.
IIRC, Ivana’s rape allegation (she did not call it rape, but that’s obviously what it was) was made in her deposition during the divorce. She hasn’t talked about it publicly since then, no doubt because of a nondisclosure/nondisparage clause in the settlement agreement.
In case you haven’t noticed, that is their deep appeal: to men who hate women and have always hated them. Parnell will be cheered for his strangulation by such horrible men.