US politics
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month agoCommentary: Bondi and Noem were incompetent. But that's not the only reason they're gone
The purging of women from Trump's administration reflects a broader erosion of women's equality in the U.S.
A year after the most openly misogynist presidential candidate in modern U.S. history defeated, for the second time, an ultracompetent woman and brought a politics of unabashed male dominance to the White House and country writ large, it can feel like something of a quaint throwback to remark on why it's important to have women in positions of power.