Many continue to wonder why men like Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh garner the support of so many Republican women. As someone who does not compromise his Progressive values but works extremely hard to engage civilly with people of all persuasions, I put out a call to Republican women for answers.
I wrote a Facebook post asking Republican women to reveal the reasons why they give many of these men the benefit of the doubt. I posted the following.
I have a question for my Republican female friends. Help me understand. The reality is that women irrespective of party, race, ethnicity, etc. are abused knowingly by a sect of men that continue to carry the undesire-of-change-troglodyte-pathology. I understand we do not want any person falsely accused by a random person coming out of the woodwork. But why would one allow one's party tribalism to take precedence over this cancer that un-eradicated affects one's mother, daughter, wife, female friends, aunt, etc.? Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is just as accomplished as Brett Kavanaugh. Why do Republicans give him the benefit of the doubt more so than her even though the probability is on her side given the history? PS: And accomplished should not need to be probative. Just saying.
I have a lot of Republican Facebook friends and followers. It surprised me how long it took to get a response from a Republican woman. In the interim, there were many responses from Democrats and progressives. Some women said the women were misogynists. But there were good analysis and differences among liberals.
A liberal woman attempted to do what many do not realize in the political domain. Certain principles do not apply.
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