For Trump’s sake, two GOP women go to war against their own sex

“Disgusting.”

So says Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Ala.) about criticisms that she misled viewers in her response to the State of the Union address when — in condemning President Biden’s border policies — she raised an episode of sex trafficking that occurred during the George W. Bush administration.

“To me, it is disgusting to try to silence the voice of telling the story of what it is like to be sex trafficked when we know that … is one of the things that the drug cartels are profiting most off,” Britt told Fox News’s Shannon Bream.

And “disgusting” was the word used by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) to justify her endorsement of former president Donald Trump, given her experience as a rape survivor. “I live with shame, and you’re asking me a question about my political choices trying to shame me as a rape victim, and I find it disgusting,” Mace told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos.

You know what I find disgusting? Women who have achieved such levels of political prominence stooping to play the gender card on a matter as important as sexual violence. It’s important to have women in positions of power, not least because they might be more focused on such issues — more inclined to take them up and more attuned to the imperative of dealing with them in a way that reflects the sensitivities of the situation.

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