Changing standards have condemned Trump the abuser
This Monday was Columbus Day, a holiday honouring the massacre of indigenous people in America. We curiously crossed the road to the newly opened Trump Hotel, created by a man who is running his campaign on hate-mongering nativism. Ladies posed with raised middle fingers. 바카라Black Lives Matter바카라 protest graffiti had been wiped off. The White House, also on Pennsylvania Avenue, was within toupee-tossing distance바카라provided Trump바카라s fan base continued to see him through orange-tinted lenses.
When Trump announced his run for president in a speech calling Mexican immigrants 바카라rapists바카라 and 바카라criminals바카라, two celebrated chefs originally hired for this hotel found his racist word salad hard to digest and dropped out, saying it was a toxic 바카라Chernobyl바카라 for Hispanic staff and guests. Trump sued them. Law suits are as much a part of Trump바카라s life as pant-suits are in Hillary바카라s.
Braggadocio and bigotry (from homophobia to Islamophobia) are as familiar to his brand as the gold 바카라TRUMP바카라 on his failed casinos. His nastiness has extended to disabled reporters. Decorated war heroes. Tearful babies.
Not only has he no green thumbs in business, he has wandering fingers as well. We know he fat-shamed female employees, made sexual advances, rated body parts in public, tried to fire employees (including the lady in the leaked audio) for being pregnant, not being pretty, or rebuffing him. His infidelities were tabloid fodder. Ivana Trump바카라s accusation under oath of marital rape and hair-pulling was on record. Trump바카라s book delusionally claimed all women flung themselves at him, in spite of a child rape charge, a sexual harassment suit, and past rumours of alleged coercion at paedophile Epstein바카라s sex parties with minors. His candid Howard Stern interviews raised red flags바카라a pageant queen confirmed his boast of walking in backstage when they were naked. Still, Trump loyalists said nothing.
Things finally unravelled with leaked tapes of a 59-year-old Trump crowing of getting away with serial sexual assaults. Horrified Republicans (the party of 바카라family values바카라) withdrew support.
Trump cited Bill Clinton. But he wasn바카라t the presidential candidate. Hillary was. She couldn바카라t be held to task for his infidelities. Bringing Bill바카라s three 바카라ladies바카라 to the second debate, after starting rumours on Hillary바카라s non-existent infidelities and Miss Universe바카라s imaginary sex tape, backfired on Trump.
So far Trump had touched girls and remained untouchable. It is sad that his public media circus of fat-shaming and race-baiting Miss America (as Latina 바카라Miss Housekeeping바카라) didn바카라t cause scandal바카라it took a white woman victim to get the Republican elite riled up.
Now they had auditory evidence바카라not rumour, not contested charges바카라that he sexually stalked women, grabbed lady parts. 바카라Forcible touching바카라 is a class A misdemeanor here, but his victims were not powerful.
Evolving gender politics and technology has led to this sudden outrage. It바카라s a reflection of changing times. Women will not stand for pre-바카라90s terms like 바카라puritanical바카라 or 바카라politically correct바카라, or abuse of power under Trump바카라s boys-will-be-boys excuse of 바카라locker room banter바카라.
Influential Trump ally Roger Ailes fostered rape culture for years, but was sacked this summer from a cosy old white boy바카라s club like Fox, where TV anchors tend to be pretty blondes with short skirts and long legs. This was unthinkable even five years ago. Ditto Cosby, another star who realised 2016 isn바카라t 1970.
It is strange that Trump is imploding only now, when other unsavoury facts about him (from birthism to lookism, homophobia to Islamophobia) were condoned. It had to get to this low point of graphic confessions by this 바카라short-fingered vulgarian바카라 before Trump supporters reacted. This was the Republicans바카라 Nirbhaya moment.
It is ironic that the GOP or Fox News, whose own track record of normalising patriarchy is terrible, is now officially appalled. Baby steps. Awareness of endemic sexism among conservatives takes years. But we are better off than before. Clinton바카라s shenanigans would not pass muster today. Monica Lewinsky was a punchline in the 바카라90s; now she바카라s understood as a confused 21-year-old intern within an unfair power dynamic. (Part of the reason Hillary isn바카라t liked much by US millennials is due to her perceived victim-blaming during the scandal.)
Not all in middle America are shocked. On November 8, the majority has to refuse Trump consent. As Bachchan laboriously explained to an obtuse court in Pink, 바카라no바카라 means a resounding no. At least in today바카라s world.