E Jean Carroll's victory over former US president Donald Trump is only a part of the larger fight against racism and misogyny in American politics, says this RMIT University lecturer.
was inaugurated as president of the United States in 2017, women took to the streets in protest. In varying states of fury and disbelief, millions of women and their supporters participated in the first Women’s March.
The president accused her of fabricating the story in order to promote her book, and in response, she sued for defamation. Carroll sued him again in late 2022, this time over posts Trump had made on social media. This time,File photo.
Even then, as he announced his campaign for the presidency nearly a decade ago, Trump cavalierly spoke about sexual abuse, making the racist and false claim that Mexico was sending drugs, criminals and rapists to the United States. But, as always with Trump, there is much more at stake than his individual political fate. In 2017, millions of women took to the streets to protest the new president. They were also reacting to something much bigger - to an ongoing misogynist and racist assault on women’s rights and autonomy that, in the years since Trump and the political movement that supports him have deliberately enabled.
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