Trump’s dominance politics, his chickenhawk machismo, remains under threat from avenging female angels — the very same sort of women who, during Argentina’s Trump years, gathered in city parks and publicly shamed the generals.
The latest attack comes from the mother of Christopher Stevens, the envoy killed in Benghazi. In a letter to the New York Times, she writes:
As Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s mother, I am writing to object to any mention of his name and death in Benghazi, Libya, by Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party.
I know for certain that Chris would not have wanted his name or memory used in that connection. I hope that there will be an immediate and permanent stop to this opportunistic and cynical use by the campaign.
Stevens’s mother seems to have tired of watching his body picked over by an obscene predator. She asks that it stop.
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But it won’t. Free speech and all.
By and all I mean that a man missing both mind and heart will be unimpeded by this sort of appeal.
On the contrary, this expression of anguish will excite him to new depths of depravity.