MAGA HAS A problem with women. Not the type of woman that embraces the submissive trad wife role championed by JD Vance and his merry band of MAGA misogynists. But they harbour a deep-seated antipathy towards women who dare to challenge their white Christian male view of how America should operate.

Anyone who witnessed Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Sunday morning performance on CNN could be forgiven for questioning what America’s Health Secretary had for breakfast. Rabies-infected roadkill perhaps? Or a testosterone and beef tallow smoothie – with a side order of toilet-seat cocaine?

Robert F. Kennedy. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

Apoplectic that moderator Dana Bash challenged his Covid-related lies and vaccine-related nonsense, Kennedy erupted into a caricature of red-faced, spittle-flecked MAGA fury. Jabbing his finger towards Bash’s face, thighs juddering and temple veins popping, he drowned out her questions with a high-decibel volley of insults, claiming she was “flustered”, “repeating like a parrot”, “saying nonsense” and “making assertions you can’t support”.

Bash’s composure in the face of some epic mansplaining enraged him even further. “You probably don’t understand this because you’re not a scientist,” he told her.

“Well, neither are you,” she responded.

Like all Trump flunkeys who do the rounds on Sunday morning talk shows, Kennedy was performing for an audience of one. The US president has been piling on the pressure of late, pushing Kennedy to establish a link between vaccines and autism.

The Health Secretary’s attempts to link autism to vaccines, Tylenol and even male circumcision are short on supporting evidence. So he opted for the next best thing in a bid to placate his boss: an attack on a female member of the ‘fake news’ media.

Imitation, after all, is the sincerest form of flattery, and Trump has a long history of belittling female reporters, attempting to silence them with insults targeting their looks and intelligence.

During the recent White House Press Correspondents Association dinner retread, Trump’s attempt to humiliate CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins by mocking........

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