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Bonnie Honig is Interim Director of the Pembroke Center for Research on Woman and Gender and Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University. Her most recent book is Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair (Fordham University Press).
Trump's paternalistic language of care draws an exceptional circle around whites only.
Conservatives routinely deny that gender is fluid. Yet they have feminized Comey in order to bring him down.
Opting out, as Trump has done with the White House, is a neoliberal habit. But who bears the cost?
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