Reposted by Linda R
We’re getting a Kimberly Guilfoyle “Pay my credit card” scandal because they want you to forget the real scandal was Kimberly Guilfoyle at a table saying “we can do that to any country we want, we can do that here” referring to Greece and the impending collapse of the Romanian government.
![Text reading: It just hit me that ONE of the reasons they want to reveal the victim's name is because [all caps] they can't remember which one of the women they assaulted is suing them. [end all caps]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b33wwlp65dw6wy2pvr7phgf7/bafkreidwxbmddh6v6cnyrtnkxjvj3ka2tri7o6ejuluz73l4ntxzfzfmky)
![This was a chat for Young Republicans, the future of their party. And it reflects dynamics we see across American society, and especially online and on the right, of young men being drawn to a culture of male supremacy and rape enthusiasm. As I wrote then, "In the context of sex, [male supremacy] comes down to a wholesale rejection of sex as a consensual act for the enjoyment of both parties."
As I noted here at Liberal Currents last year, rape is integral to authoritarian politics. Mussolini was a rapist. Francisco Franco imposed a hardline Catholic dictatorship in Spain in which women were expected to serve the nation by serving their husbands. Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Soviet NKVD during World War Two, leveraged his position to engage in serial rape on a prolific scale. As Ruth Ben-Ghiat observed in her book, Strongmen, "The strongman would be nothing without bodies to control." And authoritarianism offers up these bodies to its most dedicated foot soldiers, a point on which Beria serves as a good reminder.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hafxlnw235qrcil2lpohp2ly/bafkreicap4x26innjegfavjr2fmkjm6oaivemggox3nwclltiyytcl6z5u)
