Harvey Weinstein likes to jerk off in front of women; Trump likes to do it before the whole world

Anyone who has worked in the world has encountered people like Harvey Weinstein.  He treats women as if they are slaves,  chattel put on earth to indulge his whanker.  Men who treat women that way usually treat other men the same way.  Their mentality is driven by the need to exercise power, make others bow down before them in servile, humiliating obedience.  They form bonds with other men who can help them in their quests for power, but they regard all others as their serfs.  They derive great pleasure from fucking over people.  And they make great displays of sexism, racism, and the other forms of misanthropic perversion that titillate them.  Bullying is a way of life for them.

How do people like Harvey Weinstein get to be so powerful?  Because so many people share the desire to fuck over other people as a badge of their social status.  People flock around and support and emulate Weinstein and his kind because they want to be associated with that they regard as the power elite.  That is also true of Donald Trump and what constitutes his base.  There is the infamous video of Trump bragging about pussy-grabbing, and a multitude of women accusing him of sexual assault.  But to Trump's apostles,  those are demonstrations of his power, not offenses.  Trump lies to Americans an average of 5 times a day, but to his followers that is not an offense;  it is a demonstration of his power.  

As the week drew to a close, Trump has put on a demonstration of his power to destroy that sends his base into orgasmic glee.  Trump has found his greatest successes by appealing to and inflaming the racism and misogyny of his base.  He started his campaign by repeatedly stating that Obama was not born in America, and he has since attacked everything Obama has done.  At his post-election rallies, he still brings  up Hillary Clinton so that his base can chant their hate anthem "Lock her up."  But this week he has put a a power demonstration of destroying some of the things Obama did, despite that fact that that destruction will end up inflicting mortal damage on the country.

• Destroying health care for millions.  The New York Times and Washington Post describe his rampaging efforts to ruin healthcare for Americans. 
• Threatens to withdraw aid to Puerto Rico. 
• Decertifies anti-nuclear pact with Iran.
• Makes demands that threaten to end NAFTA agreement with Mexico and Canada, which will cause a agricultural crisis for American farmers.
• Makes demands which will effectively end DACA for the Dreamers.
• Withdrew from UNESCO, relinquishing American leadership in scientific  and cultural development.

 Trump's exhibitionism is not directed only at subjugating women,  but at hurting great masses of people.  He gets off on watching people suffer.  It is the ultimate expression of power.  And so many people love to watch him get off.