Now that Ohio Sen. JD Vance has been elevated to the nationwide stage as Donald Trump’s operating mate, we’re getting an excellent take a look at simply how, nicely, weird Republicans are. Central to that weirdness is how overtly hostile they’re to girls.
Proper now, Vance is garnering most of the headlines—and for good motive. His jibes about depressing “childless cat women” and working mothers who “shunt their children into crap daycare to allow them to get pleasure from extra ‘freedom’ within the paid labor pressure” barely scratch the floor of his anti-woman attitudes.
Vance’s excessive misogyny is popping out to be a drag on the GOP ticket—and an enormous downside for Trump. However Vance isn’t the one one showing on ballots this fall whereas expressing the concept childless girls haven’t any price and subsequently shouldn’t have a say in society. There are many GOP Senate candidates who’ve that very same basic downside with girls, and the highlight goes to activate them, too.
Take Nevada’s Sam Brown and his lengthy historical past of extreme anti-abortion activism. He’s been attempting desperately to stroll that again, however he can’t stroll away from the actions he’s taken and the deplorable issues he’s stated.
Like when he was nonetheless dwelling in Texas and operating for the state legislature there. He misplaced after which endorsed one of many two girls who went on to the runoff as a result of, based on him, she was extra certified. That qualification? She had “shared expertise” in the neighborhood, he stated, whereas her opponent was “not married with youngsters to offer for or nurture.”
When known as out on making such a baldly sexist assertion, he dug his gap even deeper.
“I might be basically disqualified from the definition of a sexist as a result of I’m endorsing a lady,” he stated. He in all probability has a number of Black mates, too.
How sexist is Brown? The “assets for girls” part of his marketing campaign web site merely lists crisis pregnancy centers—the well being care “clinics” tricking pregnant folks into pondering they’re getting precise medical care.
In fact, it’s not simply males who’re sexist. Living proof: Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake. Her anti-woman policy positions are dangerous sufficient, however they appear to spring from her basic perception that girls are lower than males. She has stated again and again that women and men aren’t equal. It’s a key theme for her.
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In a June 2021 interview on “Yard Politics,” Lake repeated that “We aren’t equal to males.”
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In a November 2021 interview with the American Financial Affiliation, Lake reiterated that girls are “being instructed […] to try, to be equal to males. And you understand what? We aren’t equal to males.”
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In an August 2022 interview on “Louder With Crowder” that was since deleted on account of violations of YouTube’s misinformation requirements, Lake told Steven Crowder, “God didn’t create us to be equal to males.”
In 2022, Lake even made a present out of vacuuming a rug that Trump would quickly seem on. This transfer garnered reward from Newsmax host Benny Johnson, who praised her “servant management.”
In the meantime, MSNBC journalist Ja’han Jones said the picture “completely embodies former President Donald Trump’s relationship with the GOP and the GOP’s relationship with women.”
This informal sexism from female and male Republicans alike can veer from mildly amusing to outright stunning. One other instance is Wisconsin’s Eric Hovde. When he was operating for Senate again in 2012, he favored to speak about how he was “very involved the place this nation is heading socially and morally” due to single moms.
In 2016, Hovde showed simply how anachronistically sexist he’s.
“Many of the nation, sadly, doesn’t know what the heck is occurring … I prefer to say, sadly, with females, they spend an excessive amount of time with what’s happening in Hollywood,” he stated. “And with males, they engross themselves an excessive amount of with sports activities. And now it’s not simply sports activities, it’s fantasy sports activities.”
Rounding out the disturbing issues popping out of Republican mouths, there’s Tim Sheehy, who’s taking up Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, and this weirdness. He was complaining about Tester’s political assaults on him when he stated one thing puzzling.
“Individuals ask me, how do you struggle again?” Sheehy stated. “Primary, I can’t, as a result of it’s like, if you happen to’re not a rapist, how do you show you’re not a rapist? I can’t show it, it’s unimaginable.”
That’s not only a weird analogy to land on, however it’s problematic. He’s baldly assuming that girls lie about rape. Good to know.
The entire raft of bad Republican Senate candidates has widespread issues this cycle. However the GOP’s downside with girls is flowing from the highest of the ticket—and it’s going to harm them on the poll field.
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