I do live in the US, am an American citizen, and have voted in US elections for 40 years. I have taught American Government in secondary schools, and US history in Secondary and University courses.
As a woman, your issue about seeing
The Vice President's legs is more than offensive. It has no place in a political discussion or any professional discussion.
Trump is a misogynist and is very comfortable with attacking women on a personal level instead of seeing them as his peers and professional equals. But that is not part of the video that I shared, so I will leave that point.
The video is about Project 2025 that is reported to be Trump's administrative and policy plan if he were to be reelected. More than 2 dozen of his former staff members and his current VP choice are connected to the "think tank" the Heritage Foundation that produced this policy plan. The most chilling aspect is the later part of the video where they describe in very formal terms how they campaigned and distributed proposal materials and utilized state level politicians to stop the teaching of black history in public schools (govt K through 12 grades) and critical race theory in colleges and universities. The video goes on to describe their political efforts to dismantle diversity equity & inclusion offices and programs. These efforts have torn out much of Black Studies and protections on school and universities campuses in the past few years at an alarming rate. Even at the University of Texas at Austin, where our esteemed founder of this listserv teaches.
Trump has a long history of racist and misogynist behaviors. You can google him on newscasts spouting all types of derogatory and slanderous things. Just google him. Not certain how you can think he is under attack or misunderstood or misrepresented.
Maybe you are being ironic or sarcastic and I just missed the humor in it. For many Americans, including myself, this election really is a fight to save some version of democracy from his efforts to create an autocratic post for himself.
Sincerely,
Jamaine Abidogun
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Just listen – It is chilling!
Project 2025 co-author recorded assuring Trump's support of his work in new video (msnbc.com)
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