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This is not due to Trump's pedophilia and child raping. He doesn't care about the law because to him it doesn't apply to him anyway, he'll rape and molest if he wants regardless.
This is desperate corporate avarice faced with the stupidity of deporting a cheap immigrant labor force. They want to keep labor costs low and one means of keeping cheap labor is to have kids join the work force. Have their stupid racist cake and eat it too.
This. The blanket blame of everything on “Trump” is getting old. Yes, he’s absolutely terrible, but we have bigger fish to fry. He’s a symptom not a root cause.
How does this explain relaxing penalties for having sex with minors or reducing the age they can marry?
Notice the state involved with lessening the penalty: Utah. and that child marriage defense is associated with anti-abortion groups.
Its religious/traditionalism. The idea that girls are meant to be possessed by a man is strong in their minds. So age of consent is irrelevant to them at best and in fact gets in the way of their view of a traditionalist society where woman serve men best as barefoot and pregnant.
Again, this has little to directly do with Trump outside of his religious virtue signalling. He doesn't give a fuck if its illegal to rape children. He views himself as above the law. He doesn't want to marry a little girl legally. He's not worried about the penalties for child rape. He believes he will never experience any legal consequences for being a child rapist, and he is probably right.
I didn't disagree with your first paragraph, I disagreed with your second. And now it seems you do, too.
They're two separate political phenomena that both happen to be associated with rightwing ideology. I was originally primarily responding to the first one.