Donald Trump: Misogynist

Franklin Foer counts the ways.

Franklin Foer, writing in Slate, not only examines Donald Trump‘s history of misogyny, he names it as Trump’s organizing principal, his “one core belief,” as Foer puts it.

Foer starts off, psychoanalyst style, by looking at how Trump’s childhood, and his childhood antics, influenced the adult he turned out to be. What’s striking is how little daylight there is between Trump the child and Trump the adult. It’s like a real-life version of Big, but instead of dancing across the giant piano keys at FAO Schwarz, child-in-adult-clothing Trump instead turns to antics like these:

Humiliating women by decrying their ugliness is an almost recreational pastime for Trump.

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