For years before he became a candidate, Donald Trump often made offensive statements that showed he cared for nobody but himself. Since he announced his candidacy for the presidency over a year ago, every week has been filled with statements denigrating just about everyone you could think of. He has insulted, in revolting language, just about any group you could think of. He has bragged of being able to stand in the middle of New York and shoot someone, and be free of consequences. And, for a core of his supporters, that all seemed fine, until this week.
Suddenly, the release of an 11 year old recording of Trump sounding like a sexual preditor has many Republicans saying that this time, he’s gone too far. Really? There’s not much new, there. It’s been clear for years that Trump is a sociopath who regards women as objects. Are Republicans really getting the vapors simply over the use of the P word? No, it’s much simpler than that.
There’s one phrase in that recording that makes it clear. “She was married...with fake tits!” Trump is boasting about making a move on someone else’s trophy wife. The sudden outrage Republicans are expressing isn’t because they suddenly dislike the way Trump treats women. It’s that he boasts of having no respect for what they see as their white male property rights.
So, for the people that are only now coming to reject Trump, that says something pretty ugly about the way they look at women, too.