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"By the way, Kamala will not be your first female president. She will not be your first female president. That?s not the way it?s supposed to be."

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"We?re not supposed to have the socialist? Look, we?re not going to be a socialist nation. We?re not going to have a socialist president, especially any female socialist president. We?re not going to have it. We?re not going to put up with it. It?s not going to happen."

Said Trump, at his rally in The Villages, Florida. Transcript. He chuckles over "especially a female socialist president" ? so it's a joke, an inside joke for you people who think women are irrational and disabled by empathy.

Presumably, he realizes that many of us are picturing Joe Biden stepping ? or getting pushed ? aside soon after he wins, if he wins, and Kamala Harris elevated to the presidency. Trump is scaring us about socialism and mixing in the idea that socialism presided over by a female is an especially dangerous form of socialism. He does go on to say that Harris is the most liberal member of the Senate, so there's something especially dangerous about Harris's "socialism," but he does say "any female socialist president," so he frames it as a stereotype of women. I see that he's using that form in a kind of stand-up comedian mode, and I recognize it as humor, but it only works as humor because the stereotype is understood and has some relationship to what people believe is true.