Reformed Offlian
Master Poster
I recognize the hand grenade I am potentially throwing into this discussion but, and let me 100% crystal clear, speaking only as a voting demographic, women are weird.
Sure the US is a big place with a lot of people so frankly I've never been super impressed that you can search far and wide and find a tiny, statistically meaningless cherry picked examples of black people who are for segregation or gays who are against gay marriage or whatever.
But women? Finding women who are against the things that we are told are pro-women like abortion rights and having options beyond staying at home and being a subservient broodmare to a husband who owns them? That ain't THAT hard to do.
Some factor has made "women's rights" less palatable to a meaningful number of women then "black rights" to black people or "gay rights" to gay people or whatever.
Don't ask me to explain, but as with a lot of unpleasant things in politics it does us no good to pretend it ain't true.
39% of female voters voted for Trump in 2016. He GAINED with women voters, taking 42% in 2020. If he pulls under 38% in 3024 I'll be amazed.
Like it or not what we think of as anti-woman rhetoric appeals to a lot of women.
It's because they're more "concerned" about immigration and their "very legitimate concerns about crime" than they are about issues that actually impact their welfare, much the same way Trumps blue collar male supporters are.
