A new ‘war on women’ breaks out. This time, it’s inside the Republican Party. - WaPo.

What is particularly interesting is the impact of having a reprehensible misogynist candidate, supported by reprehensible misogynist surrogates, means for a party headlined by misogyny. The Republican platform has, for decades, been terrible for issue that actually impact women, and are of interest to women. What Trump's candidacy has done has brought to the fore all of the issues that women have had with the party, with no sugarcoating or cute phrasing. Trump really does represent the leadership of the party.

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“If the GOP has truly convinced itself that openly engaging in sexual assault fantasies is something normal that men do among one another, I have a suggestion. Relocate the Republican National Committee headquarters into a men’s-only locker room,” [Amanda] Carpenter[, a conservative commentator and former communications director for Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign] wrote. “Eliminate all pretenses of wanting to let women in.”

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich