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Thu Jan 14, 2021, 07:36 PM Jan 2021

The End Of The Pussy-Grabbing President


The End Of The Pussy-Grabbing President
From start to finish, one of the defining themes of Donald Trump’s presidency was his profound anxiety about masculinity.

By Emma Gray and Emily Peck
01/14/2021 05:45 am ET


(HuffPost) It began with “pussy,” and it will end with “pussy.”

Four years ago, hundreds of thousands of mainly female protesters peacefully descended on Washington, D.C., to register their opposition to the president of the United States. They wore pink “pussy” hats. They carried signs with slogans like “Pussy Grabs Back.”

Last Wednesday, another angry group arrived in D.C., egged on by that same president.

Earlier that day, the vice president had received a phone call from President Donald Trump. According to The New York Times, the president had called to forcefully push Pence to overturn the results of a democratic election. During that Jan. 6 phone call, Trump reportedly set up a binary choice for his deputy. “You can either go down in history as a patriot,” Trump told him, according to the Times’ report, “or you can go down in history as a pussy.”

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A misogynist in chief, fighting back against the perceived threat of a world populated by increasingly powerful women ― like Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi ― was incredibly appealing to the aggrieved white men we saw Wednesday rampaging through the Capitol. .........(more)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-pussy-mike-pence_n_5fff5f52c5b63642b7018e91




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