The torch is passed: from MAGA throwbacks to America's future

Joe Biden didn't just pass the torch to another generation. He passed it from white MAGA men to America's future.

- Robert Reich

Consider that women now compose remarkably almost 60% of college undergraduates. And that by 2050, it's estimated that America will consist mostly of minorities 30% more Black people than today, 60% more Latinos, and twice the number of Asian Americans.

The power shift has already started.

Many of the people who have demanded accountability from Trump constitute a Trump nightmare of strong and able women, including several of color - Letitia James and Fani Willis, along with E. Jean Carroll and her lawyer Roberta Kaplan, Liz Cheney, and Nancy Pelosi.

And now, Kamala Harris.

In naming JD Vance as his vice presidential candidate, Trump feigned a torch pass but backward.

Vance's white male belongs in the early 20th century.

During Vance's bid for the Senate in Ohio in 2021, he called Democrats "a bunch of childless cat ladies," offering Kamala Harris as an example.

"How does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?" Vance asked, suggesting the only way to have a "direct stake" is by giving birth.

Even before Vance said this, Harris was stepmother to two teenagers.

Trump himself groper, fondler, dog-whistling racist, sexual harasser, rapist is no more respectful of women than is Vance, especially women of color.