Donald Trump: “Have you seen how Kamala laughs? She’s crazy.” Or the ABC of sexism, in one sentence

Now “sent by God” to save America, God who saved him from the attack on July 13, a bit “anointed by the Lord” to use Berlusconi’s words, Donald Trump is unstoppable. If the violent tones of always and especially of this election campaign were there for all to see – insults to Biden “fraudster”, “worst president ever”, “failure” to quote the most moderate – with Biden’s withdrawal from the race and the endorsement of Kamala Harris, they can only get worse. And the thing that is striking, watching the videos of the rallies, are not so many of the outbursts that Trump has beautifully accustomed us to, but the laughter in the background, even of many women who attend. This evening also Republican Senator J.D. Vance of Ohiothe vice-presidential candidate, will hold his first solo rally: he was supposed to face his counterpart Harris but instead he will go it alone. “President Trump and I are ready to save America, whoever is at the top of the Democratic ticket.” We’ll see if he uses the same tone as the former president.

«Laughing Kamala»

On Saturday, July 20, at his first campaign rally since the failed assassination attempt on July 13, the former president and Republican presidential candidate attacked Vice President Kamala Harris from the stage in Gran Rapids, Michigan, predicting that she would be the number one candidate for the Democrats to consider. “I call her ‘laughing Kamala’ (Kamala laughinged.). Have you seen how she laughs? She’s crazy,” Trump said, writing the abc of sexism, if there were a manual for the perfect sexist.

The sexist’s handbook

First of all, he only calls her by her name, Kamala, to belittle her. It will be said: he also called his rival Joe Biden only Joe to belittle him. It is true. But in the whole speech he did not call her «Kamala Harris» at any point, a sign that the belittling intent will be even more accentuated. Second: he has already given her a nickname. And not for something she said or did (or would have done, see calling Biden a «con man») but for a physical detail of her, of her body. Trump Says “Laughing Kamala” Is Crazy. Because “You Can Tell a Lot From a Laugh”said the former president. “Have you seen how she laughs? Kamala is crazy, she’s out of her mind.” Third: the fact that women, when they are strong and express opinions, are immediately accused of being “crazy,” “hysterical,” “irrational,” is a classic. Even Nancy Pelosiwhom Trump immediately cites, according to him is crazy, and she also has a nickname: “Crazy Nancy”. Not only that: “she turned on Biden like a dog”, and the comparison is made to dehumanize her. And “A discrediting and violent language, to say the least bestial, dehumanizing, is always used in situations of violence”, activist Carlotta Vagnoli taught us.

The “woman factor” in the electoral campaign

As the feminist Jude Ellison S. Doylenow a trans and non-binary man, is a story we have already seen with Hillary Clinton in 2016: there, Donald Trump’s sexism had exploded, but so had the sexism of Americans. “Hillary Clinton was unlucky in many ways: in the early ’90s, she became the symbol of the ‘new woman’, who worked outside the home, who was ambitious, who had a career, who earned more than her husband, who kept her maiden name,” says Doyle. “When she ran for office, she really paid the price for voters’ anger at feminism or women. Kamala Harris is another politician about whom people have both fair and false criticisms.”

From ‘Chicken Brain’ to ‘Pocahontas’: All the Ways Trump Calls Women

Donald Trump has always expressed himself in a sexist and misogynistic waysystematically since the post-Clinton era, also defined as “crazy”. Just think of what she said about the women who dragged him to court, by the writer Jean Carroll to the pornstar Stormy Daniels, aka “horseface”horse-faced, or political rivals, such as former Republican rival Nikky Haley, “birdbrain,” or Carly Fiorinaformer CEO of Hewlett-Packard and presidential candidate, of whom she said at a rally: “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?” Then there are her opponents, in addition to Kamala Harris, for example Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, nicknamed “Pocahontas” in reference to her claims of Native American descent. Not to mention a series of TV presenters, above all Rosie O’Donnell, of whom he said: “I hate that fat pig face.” Once again, “dehumanization” is at play.