A return to fake right-wing outrage: Without Trump, Republicans run back to sexist resentments

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A return to fake right-wing outrage: Without Trump, Republicans run back to sexist resentments

Desperate to keep the rubes riled up, the right reverts to faking umbrage at "unladylike" self-expression

By AMANDA MARCOTTE at Salon

DECEMBER 18, 2020 6:03PM (UTC)

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/18/a-return-to-fake-right-wing-outrage-without-trump-republicans-run-back-to-sexist-resentments/

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So the right is returning to the strategy of the Barack Obama years, churning out a steady stream of fake outrage over supposed Democratic transgressions — remember how angry they were that Obama wore a tan suit? — all to feed their metanarrative that Democratic governance is inherently illegitimate. And they know that the quickest way to stir the furies of right-wing America is to tell them stories about how all those Democratic women are out of control. Who do those b*tches think they are? 

This past week saw a deeply unpleasant return to the long-standing Republican practice of firing up the base by bashing Democratic women for supposed sacrileges against ladylike behavior.

First, the Wall Street Journal threw out bait by running an op-ed by Joseph Epstein in which he addressed Dr. Jill Biden, the incoming first lady, as "kiddo" and argued that it's "fraudulent, not to say a touch comic," for her to use the title of "Dr.", even though, objectively, she has a doctorate. Epstein has been playing this game as far back as 1970, when he wrote in Harper's that "I would wish homosexuality off the face of the earth" and other grotesqueries about gay people. 

The op-ed was dumb and misogynist, so of course, Tucker Carlson of Fox News was drawn to it like ants to a puked-up Long Island Ice Tea. For multiple nights this week, Carlson hosted unhinged segments full of maximum umbrage, screeching that Biden is "borderline illiterate," dismissing her career as a high school and community college English teacher. The rest of conservative media is following suit:

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[vercetti2021]

1. They are intimated by women

All I can say is to them. FUCK YOU! And to their conservative women. Y'all are fucking dumb as the men.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. Who the fuck is this guy? The nosy gossipy from bewitched? It seems he's

built a career out of being a nosy dickhead when it comes to other.

[Irish_Dem]

3. They're mad because we are not barefoot and pregnant all the time. nt

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. That is because we believe in Birth Control......

And will fight for the right to have that available.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. More than half of Joe Biden's Administration will be lead by women.

More for Congressional Republicans to get bunched up about.

What whiny babies they are.

I have a feeling more Democratic Party women will run for office in 2022.

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6. It is agri-culture again. They are farming sexists. Growing them. That

is how the republicans plan on getting and retaining power in a changing country. Kind of more like a solar farm. If fox continuouslt sends out aggrieved memes, men will absorb it. It can then be harnessed in an election.

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8. The trade was Trump would entertain them with libtard tears. Trump is

gone and they republicans need a hook to get people to vote for them despite the racism in their party. It almost worked this election. During the obama years hay was made out of a tan suit (a summer suit was a thing of class status in the old south). So they need to make something out of nothing to do with females now. And harp on like threats to malehood for 4 years straight.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. The Repugs will start raging about the deficits, blaming them on Biden and using them

to argue against passing anything that's not military oriented.

[Lunabell]

10. Fuck them all!! Fuck them straight to hell!

There, a lady has spoken.