Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday was alarming for many reasons, not least for its overt #fascism and #racism, but it was also, as The New York Times accurately reported, a “carnival” of “#misogyny”—one directed at Kamala Harris in particular.

Grant Cardone, a self-styled business guru, likened the Democratic nominee for president to a #prostitute, saying that “her pimp handlers will destroy our country.” Another speaker called Harris “the devil” and “the #Antichrist.” And Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, mocked her racial identity and repeated Trump’s insult that Harris, a former district attorney, state attorney general, senator, and now a vice president, was “#low IQ.”

The overt #sexism throughout the night, even by the standards of Trump’s nearly decade-long political career, was astonishing.
Less surprising, given the campaign he’s run this year, was the figurative #crotch-grabbing on display. When Trump running mate JD Vance mentioned Tim Walz, his Democratic counterpart, the crowd erupted into “#tampon Tim” chants—to which Vance laughed.
(Explainer here, if you need one.) And the “comedian” who opened the rally, Tony Hinchcliffe, said that Latinos “love making babies. There’s no pulling out. They come inside, just like they do to our country.”
These were not simply off-the-cuff remarks;
they were very deliberate.
It’s all part of Trump’s electoral strategy to Make America #Masculine Again.
He knows he’s losing women by massive margins, so he’s going after the men
—especially, but not exclusively, aggrieved young men who feel they’ve been robbed of their male #birthright to #power.
Trump is giving them license to say whatever they want about women, and his campaign is an implicit promise to give them control over women, including their bodies.
This is the pop-culture definition of toxic masculinity, and the crudest, most aggressive misogyny we’ve seen from Trump
—which is truly saying something, given that he’s an adjudicated #rapist who was caught on tape bragging that he can grab women’s vaginas without consequence.
But this, perhaps even more than his reprehensible immigrant bashing and fascist overtones, is Trump’s closing argument:
to put women back in their place and restore men to total supremacy in America.

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Trump’s Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women

He and his MAGA allies are ramping up the sexism and misogyny as part of a closing message that they will restore men to their rightful place—of total control over women.

^{The New Republic}

But many Americans seem to have forgotten what #Trump’s presidency was like, or they simply don’t believe that he’ll do the things that he keeps saying, loudly & publicly, that he’ll do.

Stories like Goldberg’s are an impediment to Trump’s return to #power because they are vivid depictions of what Trump believes & how he acts. In a country w/a #FreePress, voters can hear these things. Americans should carefully listen to what Trump says & know what he has done—& they should have no illusions….