As Donald Trump doubled down on the race card, Hillary Clinton didn’t just play the woman card, she dealt the whole damn deck.

The Clinton campaign waited until she could claim victory to proclaim a historic first for women. And it happened just as a Stanford swimmer, his father and a judge reminded us how society is still stacked against women.

Trump’s biggest worry should be that he’s a stand-in for every man who has ever offended, mistreated or insulted any woman in America.

That by itself should give Clinton a bump up her polls. She may rise even more if she gently and patiently brings around Bernie Sanders and his supporters.

Combined with her line of attack last week against Trump – as dangerous and temperamentally unfit, if not unstable, for the Presidency – the race could take a shape this summer that Trump will have a hard time changing this fall.

It’s about more than race and gender. It’s a classic contest between two competing world views that have dominated American politics since Jefferson and Hamilton.

One group is committed to knocking down barriers and opening up doors of all opportunity to all Americans.

The other fights like hell to stop that from happening – and to protect the power, position and privileges of a handful of people at the top.

Despite stops and starts, two steps forward and one back, the march of American history ultimately is in Clinton’s direction. This year could be a giant step.