Opening the Door to the Gender Minefield

By using her husband as a campaign surrogate, and simultaneously (correctly) calling Trump sexist, Hillary Clinton has opened a dangerous door, writes Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post.

Into this gender minefield lumbers Trump, characteristically unbound and deploying a weapon that none of Clinton’s Democratic opponents, past or present, has dared to mention. He played the Bill Card.

Trump tweeted on Sunday: “Hillary Clinton has announced that she is letting her husband out to campaign but HE’S DEMONSTRATED A PENCHANT FOR SEXISM, so inappropriate.”

Donald Trump—crude and vulgar as he may be—has a point about Hillary playing the “woman’s card” while her husband has preyed on women, especially in the workplace. “It should be no surprise that Trump has barged right through it.” Read more here.

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Debbie Young
Debbie, our chief political writer at Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.