Molly Jong-Fast

Oct 28, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Molly Jong-Fast

Rarely has American democracy felt so precarious as we await November 5. Will voters decide that Donald Trump, who has mused about suspending the Constitution, is fit to protect it? Will they ignore the warnings of Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly, and other former officials and ex-generals, about the GOP nominee’s fascistic tendencies? Will the loss of bodily autonomy, a right that women had for almost fifty years, be the breaking point?

Oct 24, 2024 | vanityfair.fr | Molly Jong-Fast

Donald Trump s'apprête-t-il à l'emporter ? À l'heure où nous écrivons ces lignes personne ne sait si l'issue de l'élection de 2024 ressemblera à celle de 2020 ou celle de 2016, ou si elle basculera dans l'imprévu. Tout d'abord, la somme des votes par correspondance et des votes anticipés montrent que, contrairement à 2016, le taux de participation sera élevé. Deuxièmement, le Trump de 2024 n'est pas le même que le Trump de 2016.

Oct 21, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Molly Jong-Fast

Will Donald Trump win? As I write this in late October, no one knows for sure if 2024 will be a repeat of 2020 or 2016—or if it will manifest as some other election scenario none of us have lived through yet. But we do know a couple things for sure. First, vote totals from mail-in voting and early voting show that, unlike 2016, this will not be a low-turnout election. Second, Trump 2024 is very much not Trump 2016.

Oct 18, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Molly Jong-Fast |Jake Nevins

Veteran newscaster Geraldo Rivera first crossed paths with Donald Trump in the 1970s, when the man who’d become the 45th President of the United States was merely a landlord rising from the ashes of a city beleaguered by crime and rampant inequality. “Trump existed almost in his own orbit,” recalls Rivera.

Oct 15, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Molly Jong-Fast

People often say to me that I wouldn’t personally be affected by a second Donald Trump presidency. After all, I live in a blue city in a blue state, and I’m a married, heterosexual woman who isn’t looking to have any more children. I won’t need medication like mifepristone for a miscarriage (though I do have girls in my family who I assume will someday want to have children), and I don’t personally rely on the federal government for education, because my kids don’t go to public school.