I can understand why Conservative men support a serial predator like Donald Trump.
John Pavlovitz :: @johnpavlovitz
But perhaps most stomach-turning of all are women like Karoline Leavitt, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Megyn Kelly, Tulsi Gabbard, Maria Bartiromo, Laura Loomer, and Laura Ingraham; women with the power and platform that few are given, and are using them to perpetuate the pain of other women. Their willingness to serve as a mouthpiece, a cheerleader, a proxy, and an instrument of injury for him boggles the mind of anyone still capable of compassion and critical thinking. These women surely know damn well that Donald Trump is a rapist and a pedophile. They’re fully aware of the absolute horrors he and his Epstein collaborators have put hundreds, perhaps thousands of girls and young women through. They have both the knowledge of the prolific evil this man is responsible for and the ability to make him accountable.
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Candace Chellew
Heather Cox Richardson’s piece this morning is great, as always. She brings up something I did not know about SC’s Sen James Henry Hammond, who has so much named in his “honor.” This is the most disgusting paragraph showing how the powerful have always been above the law:
Hammond was very clear about what he believed the world should look like. Black Americans should always be subordinate to white men, of course, but white women, too, were subordinate. They were made “to breed,” as “toy[s] for recreation,” or to bring men “wealth and position,” he had explained to his son in 1852. Hammond’s promising early political career had been nearly derailed when he admitted that for two years he had sexually assaulted his four young nieces, the daughters of the powerful Wade Hampton II (although he insisted he was being wronged because he should get credit for showing any restraint at all when faced with four such “lovely creatures”).
