It is sad that women had to be stripped of their basic right to control their bodies - and to be threatened with the loss of lifesaving medical care - for Kamala to even have a chance to get the votes of enough women to offset losing the votes of so many men.

Trump is running a hypermasculine campaign - with Chief Bro Elon Musk bizarrely bouncing up and down - that is breathtakingly offensive to women. Trump is exploiting the crisis among Gen Z men, a crisis driven by loneliness, Covid isolation, economic insecurity, a lack of purpose and a feeling that the modern world seems more accommodating to young women.

Trump is a renowned predator and groper who has been found liable for sexual abuse. But he has the gall to cast Kamala as "retarded," "lazy as hell" and a "bitch" and ask, "Does she drink? Is she on drugs?"

Barack Obama punctured the MAGA macho myth at a rally with Kamala on Thursday. Putting down people is not "real strength," he said. Real strength is standing up for those who can't stand up for themselves. "That's what we should want in our daughters and our sons," Obama said. "And that's what I want to see in the president of the United States of America."