Mary Trump - The Unspeakable Misogyny of the Trump Regime
One of the reasons we’re in the mess we’re in is because this country fails to face up to its shortcomings. Just as we have never grappled with our deeply embedded racism, we have never acknowledged our misogyny, both prejudices so deep that they are woven into the fabric of who we are in a way that makes it almost impossible to unravel.
There are so many ways in which the Trump regime is using the knee-jerk misogyny of most Americans to continue its assault on women, particularly women of color.
Unemployment for black women rose nearly two percentage points in 2025. Men, on the other hand, joined the labor force at three times the rate of women. During the same time, the Trump regime has dismantled the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor, gutted diversity programs, and instructed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission not to prioritize gender discrimination charges. It’s also advanced what the National Women’s Law Center calls a “false and dangerous narrative” that the success of working women constitutes reverse discrimination.
Negatively impacting the economic independence of women is not ancillary to the Trump regimes agenda, it’s a goal. After all, women who are financially dependent are easier to control. The Trump regime, of course, isn’t solely interested in rolling back rights, it wants to rewrite history. MS Now reported last week that Donald signed an executive order declaring the accomplishments of transgender women to be, in his words, “an improper ideology.” He’s also ordered the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum not to recognize transgender women or risk losing its funding. House Republicans pass an amendment banning transgender women from the museum entirely, erasing women like transgender activists Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and Lynn Conway from the national record.
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