What will it take to be a decent “Year of the Woman”? I’m afraid that this coming year it wouldn’t require merely running a woman for president.”

Maybe it’s on the way, a Year of the Woman (although not if Donald Trump can help it). If not now, when? I seem to think big that way every year or two, but I’m running out of years. This will be the last major election until 2024 and I’m already 91. Yes, I voted for Hillary. The second question is: what will it take to be a decent “Year of the Woman”? I’m afraid that this coming year it wouldn’t require merely running a woman for president. We’ll have to see just what the presidential polls show when push really comes to shove. We may find that the public wants to see Joe Biden arguing against the petty bombast of Donald Trump—in which case any of us could wind up lobbying for a Biden/Klobuchar or a Biden/Harris ticket. I also like Warren, and I’ll vote for Sanders if that’s what it takes to beat Trump.

And of course it’s too much to expect any significant equal rights for women under our current national governmental regime—which already seems to be dragging along pretty well below the fair-play line. Women, who make up 51% of the population, will continue to earn (on average) 82% as much as a man for the same work. And that’s just the outer layer of things.

DONALD TRUMP YESTERDAY—When Donald finds some little bit of relative innocence from the past such as Elizabeth Warren’s pride in the belief that she had American Indian heritage . . . maligns her with the name Pocahontas in a slurring way, he might as well call me “Hiawatha.” I chased the same elusive pride of Native American ancestry for about 20 years before giving up on the “Delaware Indian Princess” claimed by my great grandmother. When my brother Fred went for the DNA check.

So when such moments arise, just point to Donald’s bankrupt casino, airline, college, his family’s phony charity fund. Or get really serious and go back 30 years or so to the Central Park Five case when he was publicly urging the death penalty (full-page newspaper ads) for five INNOCENT boys 16 and younger, for assault and rape. They were black (one brown).

DONALD TRUMP TODAY—The afternoon of Jan. 24, he became the first sitting president to attend the anti-abortion March f0r Life rally in Washington, D.C., seeking to shore up his conservative support prior to the November election. And just before that speech, his administration announced that it would cut federal funding to California unless that liberal state revokes rules requiring abortion coverage by health insurers.

And while House Democrats, and others, were diligently arguing that he be impeached for corruption and abuse of power, Donald was telling an anti-abortion audience it was all because of his “conservative agenda.” He told his followers at the National Mall that “They are coming after me because I am fighting for you . . . we will win because we know how to win.”

The usual meaningless appeal to ignorance. Abortion and Ukrainian politics have nothing in common. Nothing that really has anything to do with his front-and-center impeachment.

It will be both interesting and shameful how ”Fox & Friends” handles all this between now and Nov. 3. Let alone how Donald lies, disenfranchises voters and makes other desperate attempts to win another four years in office . . . and includes every effort to separate all Americans into “winners” and ”losers”—then pose as a “winner.”

Jews, by the way, must have loved this stereotype when he said in speaking recently to the Israeli American Council: “. . . You have no choice. You’re not going to vote for Pocahontas. I can tell you that. You’re not going to vote for the wealth tax.” Yeah, Donald; it’s all about nothing but money.

Damon Linker had a lot to say recently in a political piece on Yahoo! about Trump and feminism—including: “. . . a pro-life movement whose greatest political champion is Donald Trump
has no hope for maintaining such a high-minded construal of its motives and priorities. When Trump speaks at the March for Life, the country will see the pro-life cause forthrightly advocated by a serial adulterer who’s repeatedly been accused of rape, who cheated on his wife with a porn star shortly after the birth of their son and who has been caught on tape bragging about his facility at sexual assault. Trump has spent a lifetime using women for his own gratification and then tossing them away like garbage . . .”