MAGA’s attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, stem from “unapologetic misogyny” and “toxic masculinity,” as well as a refusal to “admit to themselves that she’s cute,” according to a left-wing Salon piece that accuses Trump’s team of seeking to “win over the worst men in the nation by appealing directly to their controlling, misogynist desires .” The Tuesday essay , titled “MAGA attacks on Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter threaten to backfire on Donald Trump,” was penned by Salon senior politics writer Amanda Marcotte, who accused leading voices within the MAGA movement of “proving that they are weird” for their ongoing obsession with Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter. MAGA attacks on Kamala Harris' stepdaughter threaten to backfire on Donald Trump https://t.
co/1p5N4mrxd9 — Salon (@Salon) August 27, 2024 The author describes Ella Emhoff as “a fashion icon” whose “creativity, beauty, and easygoing love for her family has sent many on the right into paroxysms of rage.” Insisting that the Trump campaign strategy appeals to “ugly, bitter people with a message of resentment” as well as “bitter men who would rather gripe about ‘wokeness’ than take responsibility for their personal failings,” the piece claims that Emhoff “triggers the incel-minded online right by being a Brooklyn hipster who rejects the tiresome conservative rules for how women are allowed to dress or behave.” “In response, Donald Tr.