READ THIS NOW: Donald Trump is executing the gateway method now, selling confinement as protection for the homeless and dangerous while signing orders with no tight definitions and no hard limits, backed by 178 billion dollars in detention and enforcement capacity that will be used, and reinforced by the Project 2025 framework that strips gender equity enforcement and restores traditional role hierarchy, placing women directly in the risk lane when standards stay vague and discretion stays wide.
Donald Trump calls critics mentally unwell, pairs opponents with mental institutions in public rhetoric, and reopened federal civil commitment pathways that expand who agencies can confine, which historically sweeps up outspoken, nonconforming, and dependent women first once gateway rules widen.
Mass capacity plus loose thresholds plus executive authority creates immediate exposure for women at rollout speed.