Team Trump: If You Vote Against CIA Torture Overseer Gina Haspel, You're a Sexist!

[DonViejo]

A party that mocked identity politics is now embracing it.

ASAWIN SUEBSAENG and JACKIE KUCINICH

05.10.18 5:07 AM ET

It was at the end of the unclassified hearing for President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency that Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, switched gears. Having spent much of his time extolling Gina Haspel’s professional credentials, the North Carolina Republican abruptly noted that she was also poised to break the glass ceiling at the CIA.

“It may be impossible to measure the importance of that breakthrough but I know that your confirmation will send a signal to the current workforce and the workforce of the future that a lifetime of commitment to the agency and its mission can still and will be rewarded,” Burr said.

If confirmed, Haspel would, indeed, make history. But in citing that possibility, Burr wasn't just offering commentary about social progress in America, he was taking his turn at using one of the Republican Party's new favorite political weapons.

The GOP in the Trump years has grown to love identity politics, viewing it as an effective means of waging battles and landing counterpunches. And it’s not just over Haspel.

"The only war on women that I see is the one that's being waged against every woman and every female that is close to this president," White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Fox News early last year, responding to a question about Ivanka Trump and other women serving on Team Trump.

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[Solly Mack]

1. Nonsense! A female war criminal is the equal of a male war criminal.

And both should be treated the same way.

[madaboutharry]

2. I am so sick of their bullshit.

They couldn't care less about women. The republicans use women as props. They want Gina Haspel to serve as head of the CIA because of the way she thinks, not because of her gender. They like the fact that she ran a torture site and destroyed evidence. That makes her a hero to them.

[Beantighe]

3. So we were

So we were accused of voting with our vaginas if we supported HRC, yet we are expected support a war criminal because she is a woman. Got it. Dumbasses. Just more of the same old stupid shit coming from the same old stupid people.