That's what we called it back in the day. Today the preferred words are 'sexism' or 'misogyny', and Trump is certainly a misogynist. Both words apply to much of Trump's base -- I won't use the d-word; think that's a step too far -- and the tea party/alt-right/whatever they're calling themselves this week. He long ago maxed out this voting demographic, and now this bit with Miss America might be sealing the losing deal for him.
Tuesday, Trump refused to back down from his criticism of Machado, telling "Fox and Friends" in an interview that she had "gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem."
"She was the winner and you know, she gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem. We had a real problem," Trump said. "Not only that, her attitude, and we had a real problem with her, so Hillary went back into the years and she found this girl -- this was many years ago. And found the girl and talked about her like she was Mother Theresa. And it wasn't quite that way but that's OK. Hillary has to do what she has to do."
Hard to see that temperament resounding with 53% of the electorate. Statistical note: that 53% figure is from 2013 and is likely to increase in five weeks. And of the nine states where men make up more than 50% of the population, only two are battleground states. So there's a whole lot of wasted Trump votes in those red states. The gender gap is real, and Trump is expanding it.
I know that there's a cottage industry full of bankruptcies predicting the demise of Hair Furor (I went real early myself), but there's precious little time for the Barking Yam to recover from his debate faceplant, no matter what the online polls say.
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