Donald Trump’s forked tongue has unleashed another unsurprising attack, asserting that Hillary Clinton has nothing going for her but the “woman’s card.” Clinton’s retort was generous, saying that if he means she is fighting for women’s health care, paid family leave and equal pay and is thus playing the woman card, “then deal me in.”
But Hillary should be careful about sitting down across the table from a man who deals from the bottom of the deck, with cards up his sleeve, possibly holding a nasty, downright vicious Trump card.
The Clinton campaign is obviously aware of the brutal combat ahead if Trump is the Republican nominee, and that eventuality becomes more apparent with each primary, none more evident than his sweep on Tuesday.
Clearly, he has mopped the deck with the opponents in his party and is now gearing up for the showdown with Hillary. Declaring that all she has to offer is the “woman’s card” will not be the least of the vitriolic comments in his linguistic arsenal.
Since Trump’s campaign began, there has been an endless flow of name-calling, personal innuendos and condemnation of just about everybody who stands in his way to the White House. Dr. Ben Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz, John Kasich and other GOP candidates have been stung by his putdowns, and the world knows about his determination to build a wall to stop “illegal immigrants” and his plan to reject Muslims at the border.
So we are not surprised to hear his broadside against Hillary—he is an unrepentant, asinine joker with little respect for women, people of color or even those toadying up to him who are hoping to get a page or two from his check book.
In a previous editorial we demanded that Trump be dumped. That hasn’t happened, and he seems to be gathering more momentum even as Cruz and Kasich team up to stop him.
If the Republicans can’t stop him, the only force left to offset his run to the Oval Office will be to get Hillary there first. And this means that Sen. Bernie Sanders will have to deliver his legions if he loses, lest he be complicit if Trump is triumphant.
Trump’s insensitive rhetoric is but a harbinger of his administration, and those who believe that a vote for him will intensify the contradictions and bring about a political revolution may be in for something beyond the nightmare they envision.
Beware the Trump card, it contains more than a tad of incipient fascism.