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Becoming every woman’s nightmare boss won’t win you health care votes

Jun 30, 2017, 5:50 AM | Updated: 6:30 am

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A protester wears a large likeness of President Donald Trump outside the Trump Hotel, Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The slow process of Donald Trump becoming presidential hit kind of a speed bump this week with his nasty tweets about MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

Here are the tweets in question:

And:

Now, it’s true, they have been very mean to him.

Here’s Joe on the famous Covfefe tweet:

“It would be like somebody pooping their pants and then people looking at it and saying, oh that’s modern art.”

Here’s Mika on the fake TIME Magazine cover:

“Nothing makes a man feel better than making a fake cover of a magazine about himself, lying every day, and destroying the country.”

And the head of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel said people need to understand what that does to a man:

“They’ve said he has dementia. They’ve called him a goon. They’ve called him a thug. They’ve said he was mentally ill. And today he pushed back.”

But the pushback against Mika was more than a pushback, as I found out when I happened to mention it to my wife over dinner. The expression on her face when I quoted that tweet was the expression that says, “watch what you say next, Buster.” And when I very carefully asked why she said it was because it reminded her of the Megyn Kelly comment and the Old Testament idea that women are unclean.

That goes deep. And while I can’t be sure of the long-term political consequences, making yourself the image of every women’s nightmare boss is not going to win you a lot of votes for health care reform.

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