‘Blame Women’—How the Trump Campaign Is Courting Voters...and Donors
With hours to go before voting begins, the Trump campaign is trying new tactics to establish a MAGA future—and many of those attack women.
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Much ink has been spilled about what Donald Trump is: A fascist? A puppet? A narcissist? An opportunist? Is he a hardline ideologue or a meandering megalomaniac?
One of the reasons it’s so hard to pin Trump down is because he says what he thinks out loud—and what he thinks is often fleeting, and self-contradictory. (Exhibit A (of many): His many changing stances on abortion.)
On the last Sunday in October, he said during a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City that the U.S. is now an “occupied country” because of immigration at the southern border. He repeated one of his favorite campaign trail terms—“the enemy within”—a conspiratorial term which he attaches to pretty much any American who disagrees with him publicly. And he called the media an “enemy of the people.”
