There she goes again.
Fox News headlines: “Hillary Clinton bashes Republican women, says GOP female president would be ‘handmaiden to the patriarchy.’”
The story reports:
Hillary Clinton took a swipe at female Republicans in an interview earlier this month, saying they would all be servants of “the patriarchy” if they became president.
“Well, first of all, don’t be a handmaiden to the patriarchy, which kind of eliminates every woman on the other side of the aisle, except for very few,” Clinton said during a May 1 discussion at New York City’s 92nd Street Y when asked by moderator Margaret Hoover what advice she had for the first female President of the United States.
Clinton pointed to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski as one of the “few” women in the Republican Party she respected. Murkowski has been a strong critic of Trump at times, including when she voted to convict him during his second impeachment trial in 2021.
Clinton responded affirmatively when Hoover mentioned former GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who endorsed Biden — and then Harris — in 2024 and helped lead the January 6 House committee investigation against Trump.
There’s more, of course. But let’s get to the bottom of what’s really being said here.
What Hillary Clinton really means is that being Leftist and anti-Trump is the only real way a woman can illustrate her independence from the “patriarchy.”
It is, of course, not simply laughable bunk but a case of serious projection.
Were a Republican woman to appear on the political scene and appear as a serious conservative and, on top of that, be a serious Trump supporter? Then, by Hillary’s definition, that woman is a hostage of the “patriarchy” — because, don’t you know it, to be conservative or a Trump supporter and a woman is impossible. That stuff is for men only.
This is, of course, laughable.
At this minute, the White House chief of staff is … a woman. That would be one Susie Wiles. And as anybody who has worked in any White House can report, inside any White House, the chief of staff is decidedly a VIP, charged with making the internals of a president’s staff work and accomplish the goals of the president of the moment, whomever that might be.
Over the course of Trump’s two terms, various women have held seriously important roles in the administration. Among them United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Kelly Loefler, the administrator of the Small Business Administration. And there are others.
Suffice it to say, these positions are decidedly and exactly the major positions charged with running the government of the United States for a president. To suggest that they are “handmaidens to the patriarchy” is not merely an insult to all of them. It is projection, accusing each and every one of them of being what, in reality, Hillary herself has revealed herself to be — “a handmaiden” to the patriarchy of the Democratic Party Establishment.
Recall that in 2016, it was Hillary Clinton, not Vice President Joe Biden, who was selected by then-President Barack Obama to be the Democrat nominee to face the GOP’s Donald Trump. She was the personal selection of the Patriarch-in-Chief Obama over the then-sitting Vice President Joe Biden — the latter who outranked Hillary in the government, she the lower-ranking Secretary of State. Talk about being a tool of the patriarchy. That was Hillary Clinton’s role — and she loved it.
Recall as well the grief Republican Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took when she was selected to be the 2008 running mate for GOP presidential nominee Senator John McCain. Over in the lefty Huff Post, Palin was described as “The Patriarchy in a Skirt.”
In short, no Republican woman of prominence will escape Hillary’s patriarchal slam unless, in today’s political world, they oppose President Trump. Or they are, in reality, a liberal. Note well that the two women in the GOP she professes to respect are Trump opponents Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and ex-Congresswoman Liz Cheney. And in the latter case, it is more than safe to say that ex-Vice President Dick Cheney, the Cheney family patriarch and world-class Trump disdainer, whole-heartedly approves of his daughter’s anti-Trumpism. She is the patriarch’s delight.
The bottom line here, of course, is that old Clinton standby: Rules for thee but not for me.
It’s not OK for any Republican woman to like or, much less, work for President Trump.
But if you are a woman who opposes Trump? Getting the nod from the world of the liberal, anti-Trump patriarchy?
Then hey.
What’s a little patriarchy between political soul mates? Hillary approves. In fact, she thrives on the approval of the Democrats’ patriarchy. And always has.
Shocking.
Not.
READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord:
Hillary Accepted Foreign Gifts
Trump Wins Hostage Edan Alexander’s Release
The post Hillary: Handmaiden to the Patriarchs of the Left appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
Leave a Comment