all of those women you named in his direct sphere are women of extreme privilege. gabbard is the only one that could be seen as a lay person with an upbringing even remotely close to mine. go out and talk to women who don't have wealth like his daughters, family status like his CoS, extreme beauty like his wives (which is a huge social currency asset), or other such things. why is it so easy to dismiss that millions of people have fear about the precedent that he sets for how women are treated? he literally made a mockery of sexual assault, laughing about groping a woman. as someone who's literally had that EXACT scenario happen to her, and on other occasions had much worse happen, the "you're going to be fine" feels really dismissive.
now, eight years later after the infamous tape that was dismissed as "oh that's just locker room talk, don't worry!" we're seeing misogyny on open display. like, dudes are wearing tshirts in public with shit like that image, and aren't doing it ironically. maybe i was living under a rock before 2016, but i don't recall ever hearing anyone say that women shouldn't be able to vote and now it's come across my attention twice in two weeks. can you not see that the two things are related? i'm not saying trump himself wants to repeal the 19th or that he is my personal boogeyman. what i'm trying to show is that he is giving permission and setting a very low bar for how to treat women. and EVERYone with decency and integrity should be calling that out for what it is, and not giving him a free pass because you like his policies on "illegals." fringe stuff can slip into mainstream stuff in just a generation or two.