There is a throughline from the Kavanaugh hearings to Pete Hegseth's Pentagon to Republicans openly calling for repealing the 19th Amendment, and now what was once fringe is now policy and the GOP's closing argument heading into the midterms.
Trump's attacks on female journalists aren't just emotional outbursts. They are calculated signals to his far right base. They are an appeal to "masculinism", the term coined for the political backlash against feminist gains that unites every corner of MAGA.
