Commentary: Bondi and Noem were incompetent. But that's not the only reason they're gone
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Remember when our president attacked a female journalist for asking uncomfortable questions with a casual, sincere, “Quiet, piggy”?That was five months ago, a lifetime in the chaos of the Trump administration, but it was a telling moment about how not just our president but those crafting his policy view women and their place in society.Hint: It’s not at the top.
While I have not a bit of pity or dismay that Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem — the former U.S.attorney general and the former secretary of Homeland Security, respectively — were given the ax by President Trump in recent days, it shouldn’t be lost that this is another “quiet, piggy” week in an administration that is increasingly openly hostile to women in power.
“I see a theme,” Texas Rep.Jasmine Crockett wrote on social media.
“He will throw the incompetent women under the bus a lot faster than the incompetent men.” World & Nation Over the last year, Pam Bondi’s Justice Department has encountered resistance from judges, grand jurors and its own workforce in trying to establish criminal conduct by one Trump foe after another.When democracies decay, and especially when movements like Christian nationalism rise, an erosion of women’s equality almost always comes first.Bondi and Noem are part of a U.S.
erosion that should alarm us all, whatever your gender identity.First, the obvious.
Good riddance.Noem seemed to relish cruelty, and treated her job like a costume party, constantly mugging for cameras with guns and faux toughness as if the dismantling of lives and imprisoning even children was a game.
Never mind the grift.Bondi, meanwhile, always seemed like the football team’s third-favorite cheerleader, desperately vying for the attention of the jock-gods around her, even if it meant groveling for approval, even if it meant selling out all women with her ultimate censoring of the Epstein ...