Why Women Hate Trump

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Why Women Hate Trump
One of the many striking results from 2016 was that Donald Trump carried white women 47-45 over Hillary Clinton. So much for identity politics! The first female major party nominee couldn’t even win…
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8:19 AM · Oct 28, 2020

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One of the many striking results from 2016 was that Donald Trump carried white women 47-45 over Hillary Clinton. So much for identity politics! The first female major party nominee couldn’t even win her own demographic niche.

And this result was even more striking because Trump wasn’t just “not a feminist.” He wasn’t your garden-variety, patriarchy-lite conservative, like a John Cornyn or Mike Pence. He was an anti-feminist: a walking, sniffing caricature of the kind of troglodytic asshole that most women—whatever their politics—hate coming into contact with.

Like everything else about Trump, even this improbable victory got exaggerated. After the election he would go around claiming, “You know, I got 52 percent with women.” Which wasn’t true—overall, Trump lost women voters 39 percent to 54 percent.

But like so many things that Trump says but aren’t true, there was an idea of a kernel of a nugget of truth to it. Because if you were a left-leaning white gal—like myself—you felt kind of betrayed by the fact that your demographic peer group went for that guy. And the explanations were kind of discomfiting. Because at the end of the day the only real explanations were (a) racism or (b) internalized misogyny.

Yay us?

*snip*

[Wounded Bear]

1. Women hate Trump because Trump hates women...

pretty simple, really.

[Harker]

2. I think Hillary Clinton's "demographic niche" was

much bigger than "white women."

In a democracy, she'd have won.

[Collimator]

3. Why do women hate Trump?

Because the majority of them have eyes, ears and human consciences.

[smirkymonkey]

4. +1000

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Trump is a misogynist.

He hates women.

[betsuni]

6. "Why did Clinton fail to perform better among women voters? One reason

is the weaker gender solidarity among women. For example, in the September 2016 wave of the Presidential Election Panel Study, only about a third of women said that being a woman was 'extremely important' to their identity, while 60 percent of blacks said their race was 'extremely important.' That lack of gender solidarity was politically consequential too. Hillary Clinton was significantly less popular than Obama was among the majority of women who did not see gender as extremely important to their identities. Thus, Clinton's performance among women in both the Democratic primary and the general election confirmed past research showing that race and partisanship are more important than gender in how people vote. The salience of race and partisanship helps explain why Clinton lost white women by 9 points -- a deficit larger than Barack Obama's in 2008 and Al Gore's in 2000."

From Sides, Tesler, Vavreck's "Identity Crisis"

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7. Thank God, women are now following Maya Angelou's advice...

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them."

And trump has shown his fat, lying, misogynist ass to everyone for four years now.

We all believe him now.