Trump says Hill would be 5% if she were a man. If trump were a woman, he'd be Palin
I think the most glaring display of the sexist double standard in our politics and society is not how Hillary is treated because she is a woman, but how trump is treated because he's a man.
If a woman proudly flaunted her absolute ignorance of the function of government, policy positions, and current events all while running a campaign solely on petulance, arrogance and insults, she would be nothing more than a joke. Sarah Palin is a good example. Like trump, she wholly lacked the intellect or chops to be taken seriously. Like trump, she spoke in rambling incohernce with a few trigger words tossed in the word salad. Like trump she was incurious and defaulted to personal insults.
Unlike trump, she was not taken seriously. She was ridiculed, she challenged by the press, her star quickly buried. Her aspirations in 2013 went no where.
Yet, here we have trump, the newest standard bearer for the GOP, sort of, the presumptive nominee. As an exercise, take everything and anything trump has said and imagine a woman candidate saying the same thing. And then consider how it would play in the press, to competitors and society.
If trump were a woman, he would not have gotten even 1% support. If trump were a woman, he would be appropriately seen and covered as a blathering idiot and dangerously uninformed. He would not be taken seriously. He's the one playing a gender card.
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