‘When The Guns Are Trained on Her Face’: Right-wingers Put Full Misogyny on Display With Election Days Away
Trump's rhetoric "devalues" women, Kamala Harris says
Donald Trump and others on the political right seemed determined to end this election season by letting voters — and the world — know what they think about women.
Even with most public opinion polls showing women favoring his Democratic opponent by a wide margin, Trump and his allies only deepen their misogyny.
Trump just used some of his most violent rhetoric to date against a woman, while his allies and supporters are in a boil that their wives might secretly vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris, herself, said that Trump’s recent language demonstrates that he “devalues” women.
Speaking at a campaign event in Arizona, Trump called for the violent execution of one of his most-persistent critics, former congresswoman Liz Cheney.
“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face,” the former president said.
Cheney and her father, former vice president Dick Cheney, are just two of the prominent Republicans who have crossed party lines to vote for Harris, who would be the first woman elected president of the United States.
Calling Trump’s suggestion to murder Liz Cheney “not normal,” “not acceptable,” and “dangerous,” Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post, Eugene Robinson, made a public plea to his friend, Paul Gigot, the editor of the Wall Street Journal’s right-wing editorial pages.
“Paul, are you watching this? Are you paying attention to this? You know, is this okay with you? Because I know it’s not,” Robinson said, on Friday’s Morning Joe program on MSNBC. “You have a responsibility to say that to your readers. This is absolutely beyond the pale. It’s a direct threat. Not nine barrels pointed at her. Nine barrels shooting at her.”
Those on the political right also are boiling over suggestions by Cheney, former first lady Michelle Obama, and others that women can privately vote for Harris without disclosing it to their Trump-supporting husbands.
“This is sick!” declared former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who likens the suggestion as women lying to their husbands.
Fox News host Jesse Watters, known for regular bursts of misogyny, likened the chance his wife could vote for Harris to an extramarital affair.
“That violates the sanctity of our marriage,” he said.
As if women owe men fealty for their votes.
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