Donald Trump Is a Textbook Abuser, and Women Everywhere Know It

[Madam45for2923]

The media may not see through Trump, but women, particularly those who have experienced abuse, do.

Still, the 2016 version of that gap is a doozy, wider than it’s ever been and growing. Add in another factor: Huge numbers of women with “negative” opinions of Donald Trump don’t simply dislike him but loathe him in visceral ways. In other words, something unusual is going on here beyond party or policy or even politics—something so obvious that most pundits, busy fielding Trump’s calls and reporting his bluster on a daily basis, haven’t stepped back and taken it in.

Even Hillary Clinton, when she comes out swinging, politely refrains from spelling it out. In her recent speech on foreign policy, she declared Trump temperamentally unfit to be president: too thin-skinned, too angry, too quick to employ such “tools” as “bragging, mocking, and sending nasty tweets.” Admittedly, she did conjure up a scary, futuristic image of an erratic bully with a thumb on the nuclear button, describing as well his apparent fascination with and attraction to autocrats like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. But she stopped short of connecting the Trumpian dots when she concluded, “I will leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants.”

In truth, most women don’t need psychiatrists to explain the peculiar admiration of an aspiring autocrat for his role models. Every woman who has ever had to deal with a Trump-style tyrant in her own home or at her job already has Trump’s number. We recognize him as a bloated specimen of the common garden variety Controlling Man, a familiar type of Household Hitler.

In fact, Donald J. Trump perfectly fits the profile of an ordinary wife abuser—with one additional twist. Expansive fellow that he is, Trump has not confined his controlling tactics to his own home(s). For seven years, he practiced them openly for all the world to see on The Apprentice, his very own reality-TV show, and now applies them on a national stage, commanding constant attention while alternately insulting, cajoling, demeaning, embracing, patronizing, and verbally beating up anyone (including a “Mexican” judge) who stands in the way of his coronation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-a-textbook-abuser-and-women-everywhere-know-it/

[guillaumeb]

1. Making his supporters.....

masochistic, or so desperate for solutions that they will overlook his obvious pathologies?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. No, it's a dominance waterfall

Abused children sometimes abuse younger siblings or weaker classmates.

Trump is a Right Wing Authoritarian. His supporters are RWA Followers. They compartmentalize their thinking.

That's why they love Melania Trump's porn pictures printed in the New York Post but completely dump on Alicia. The former is almost owned by Trump as a trophy, and the latter was publicly verbally beaten up by Trump.

I would not want to be a Trump supporter's wife or child.

[guillaumeb]

6. NIce points.

Trump does "brand" everything he owns with his name. Literally and symbolically.

[Blue Idaho]

9. Yup...

Trump doesn't have relationships with women, he takes prisoners.

[Rocknrule]

2. The sad thing is

he's such a loathsome person all around, misogyny is only like the 5th worst thing about him

[shenmue]

3. Yeah

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. Actually, if people took misogyny seriously, because it does destroy women's lives...

If people thought women mattered, the sign would have been seen for what they are much sooner.

Like a canary in a coal mine, you can tell who a man is by how he treats women. A society that allows it is a sick society.

Demagogic abusers are at the extreme, and even so they always do it publicly to women early on, BECAUSE they can get away with it.

That's always how it's always been.

[rumdude]

7. "Every woman adores a fascist"

Plath was wrong.

[mnhtnbb]

8. I hope Melania has an exit plan

because I am concerned for her. Although there aren't any reports of the Donald physically abusing women in his life--I'd categorize the rape allegations separately--
it's clear he's coming unhinged. And Melania could be an easily available target for his rage.

[tblue37]

12. Read about the extreme physical abuse and marital rape that Ivana detailed in a deposition--

i.e., under oath--during their divorce.

She denies it now, of course, because his wives and employees (but I repeat myself) all must sign an ironclad nondisclosure agreement that exposes them to financial ruin if they say anything negative about him. But under oath, she provide some truly horrifying details!

[mnhtnbb]

13. I have missed this information--just read about it--

but it doesn't surprise me that he would be violent.

I say again, Melania needs to have an exit plan because this guy could be extremely dangerous
when he snaps.

[displacedtexan]

10. I just read somewhere that his threat of bringing up President Clinton's affairs...

...was the same way an abuser says, "Don't make me hurt you again, Bitch!"

So true. I once worked for a man, who said to me during my evaluation, "You're just not tolerant enough of incompetence. You don't want me to include that in your file, do you?" I replied, "Thanks for the compliment. And please add that to my file. It'll be interesting if or when future bosses ask me about that."

I don't suffer bullies ligtly, and I'm glad more and more women are standing up to them, too.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. Dont forget what he said about Carly. BTW where is she? Can't stand her

but, might be wise for her to call him out again.