There’s a really good article in Slate by my friend Frank Foer under the headline “Donald Trump Hates Women.” It’s good for two reasons. First, it pulls together the numerous anecdotes, quotes, incidents and events going back five or even six decades demonstrating the point embodied in the headline and, second, weaves them all together in a way that is not just as an indictment, which it can’t help but being, but an explanation of a certain type of character.
Recently I was talking to an activist in the gun control movement. The issue that most interested me is that while the number of guns in circulation has gone up dramatically in the United States, the number of people who own firearms has been declining steadily for forty years. In other words, a smaller number of people are owning more and more guns.
In my series of impromptu essays about Trump and Trumpism I’ve repeatedly returned to the topic of ‘dominance politics‘ and the way it informs virtually everything about Trump’s campaign. So far I’ve discussed it mainly in the context of domestic, electoral politics. That’s the framework in which I usually think about it. But since Trump will almost certainly be the Republican nominee and thus possibly become President, it’s important to think through the implications abroad as well.
I noted on Friday that what seems very likely to be the Clinton v Trump general election match-up will be a gendered electoral armageddon – an unreconstructed, unabashed and angry male chauvinist against a women of great power and accomplishment who can more than hold her own against him. It will be ugly. But I think it will be Trump’s undoing. Remember, Clinton’s already beating Trump in all the head to head match ups (as is Sanders). So he doesn’t need much undoing. But I think he’ll get it.
I’m going to be away for a week. Please keep an eye on the country.
Tierney Sneed goes inside the bizarre (and complicated) Donald Trump-Ted Cruz Louisiana delegate fight and finds that, as far as locking up delegates goes, Trump’s “outsider” campaign may very well hurt him in the event of a contested convention.
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No, I’m not back from vacation. But I wanted to share a thought with you. (We’ll see how writing a post on an iPad goes.) I’ve mentioned in several contexts over the last few months how our nominating processes – on both sides – are actually extremely rickety and dysfunctional processes that are entirely unable to withstand the stresses of nominating a presidential candidate without a party that is fundamentally united.
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Unanimous 8-justice Supreme Court upholds principle of one person, one vote in major voting rights case. Unanimous. Full decision here.