By A.B. Stoddard
September 21, 2018

In the firestorm of allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Republicans have made clear that mitigating their woman problem has taken a back seat to voting him onto the Supreme Court as soon as possible.

A Republican consultant summed it up this week, noting privately, “I’d lose the House to get Justice Kavanaugh.”

Young voters, minority voters, college-educated voters, independent voters … as Republicans hemorrhage support across the board, hell, why not give up on women as well? A new political realignment caused by the flight of white, college-educated women from the GOP has loomed since President Trump was elected. And it became an electoral threat to Republicans well before anyone learned Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s name.

Some Republicans remain in denial about the shift, which has been exacerbated by Trump. In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s advantage with women voters, and Trump’s advantage with men, produced the widest gender gap in history. Trump, however, won 53 percent of white women. Yet Steve Bannon bluntly conceded months ago that Trump has ushered in an “anti-patriarchy movement.” The president’s former chief strategist said that “the Republican college-educated woman is done. They’re gone. They were going to anyway at some point in time. Trump triggers them.”

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