NY Times - At Trump Rallies, Women See a Hero Protecting a Way of Life

[TomCADem]

It seems like we are well on our way to becoming a modern day Gilead with millions of Trump supporting women looking forward to playing the role of Serena Joy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/politics/trump-women.html

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Standing in an airplane hangar in the mid-autumn chill awaiting the arrival of President Trump, Joan Philpott said she was angry and scared. Only Mr. Trump, she said, can solve the problems she worries most about.

“He wants to protect this country, and he wants to keep it safe, and he wants to keep it free of invaders and the caravan and everything else that’s going on,” said Ms. Philpott, 69, a retired respiratory therapist.

Ms. Philpott was one of thousands of women who braved a drizzle for hours to have the chance to cheer Mr. Trump at a rally here on Thursday. While political strategists and public opinion experts agree that Mr. Trump’s greatest electoral weakness is among female voters, here in Columbia and places like it, the president enjoys a herolike status among women who say he is fighting to preserve a way of life threatened by an increasingly liberal Democratic Party. “He understands why we’re angry,” Ms. Philpott said, “and he wants to fix it.”

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As Republican candidates battle to keep their congressional majorities in the midterm elections on Tuesday, Mr. Trump is crisscrossing the country to deliver a closing argument meant to acknowledge — and in many cases stoke — women’s anxieties. At rally after rally, he has said that women “want security,” warning of encroaching immigrants, rising crime and a looming economic downturn if Democrats gain power.

[ellie]

1. Hahahahaha!

The delusion is almost painful. Trump cares only about Trump. He is going to protect himself.

[grantcart]

2. Dur Fuher loves me

[wellst0nev0ter]

50. The Times missed one tiny detail about Rachell Marks

Link to tweet

Seriously, the media elites waste so much time chasing after trumpanzees, they fail to do basic background research.

[Freddie]

3. Their way of life

Enjoying the fruits of male privilege via their husbands. They’re just one divorce or death away from being just like the rest of us. But typical Republicans, they have no concept of anything unless it happens to them.

[sharedvalues]

4. Typical bad NYT head and article. Fools: where do they get their news?

NYT:

ASK THEM WHERE THEY GET THEIR NEWS.

Ask about Fox. Ask about Limbaugh. Ask about Breitbart.

THESE PEOPLE ARE BRAINWASHED BY THE RIGHTWING MEDIA AND YOU NEVER MENTION IT.

Fools

[dameatball]

5. Has anyone noticed that both Trump and his supporters will respond to questions in the same way?

They will say whatever so called "issue" that they can think of off the top of their pointy heads and then use a phrase such as "and everything else going on" or some such all inclusive and completely vague notion.

[Liberal In Texas]

6. Ms. Philpott, 69, a retired respiratory therapist should get her information from somewhere

other than FoxNewschannel.

[manor321]

7. The NYT keeps embarrassing themselves

All they do is talk to Trump people all day long, every day.

Cancel those subscriptions!

[Awsi Dooger]

37. The New York Times is describing the real world

Posters here are always trying to pretend Trump's approval rating will tank to 30% or lower. Can't happen, due to people like the ones interviewed and described by the Times.

[malaise]

8. Unless their way of life is being grabbed by the pussy

something is seriously wrong with this interpretation.
Bullshit!

[TomCADem]

25. Apparently, Some Women Trump Supporters Would Support That...

[malaise]

29. LOL

No comment

[MariaCSR]

46. Could he even find it under all that fat?

Hehe

[malaise]

47. Bwaaaaaaah

[qazplm135]

51. Fat shaming not cool

Easy enough to shame her just on her support of Trump's sexual assaults.

[EffieBlack]

54. I wonder who's going to tell her that, while she's a perfectly attractive woman (if you ignore that

gawdawful shirt), Donald Trump wouldn't give her the time of day since she's clearly not his kind of attractive.

It's actually painful to see a woman degrade herself over a man who would n doubt call her a pig.

[maryellen99]

9. Notice how they are all older women or stay at home moms?

These are the women who peaked in HS.

[kimbutgar]

24. And they probably were the mean girl cheerleaders

I notice the orange maggot supporters I knew from high school were the cruel bullies.

[Ohiogal]

27. Ahem

This "mature" woman and former stay-at-home mom finds that comment offensive!

I'm as liberal as they come!

[maryellen99]

31. I'm talking about the female Trumpies they interviewed

I’m sorry if I offended you.

[Ohiogal]

32. Just remember

not to paint with a broad brush, and I'll accept your apology!

I fight this a lot ..... people seem to think that if you're a SAHM you've got oatmeal for brains or something.

[maryellen99]

33. My mom was one too until we were teens nt

I’ll remember not to.

[andym]

10. Bush whipped up fear about Islamic terror; Trump whips up fear about immigrants

especially immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America. And guess what? It works-- nativism works on many Americans. Xenophobia and tribalism are widespread traits that just need to be triggered-- conservatives may be more susceptible to fears of the "other", but tribalism affects many, many Americans. At some level we even see tribalism here at DU-- just think of the ways people here supported their favorite candidate for President and demonized their opponents. Having Fox News and right wing propaganda outlets available obviously helps the GOP, but the mainstream will dutifully report what Republicans and the President are saying.

[Andy823]

12. What total bullshit!

This is pure "cult" worship, nothing else. Truly gullible people are prone to follow cult like groups. They are fed the same talking points over, and over, and over again with the "cult leader" in this case trump, convincing them he, and those who think like him, are the only ones that can save you. Once they get their hooks in you they milk the followers of money, self esteem, and rational thinking, making "everyone" who is not part of the "cult" the enemy. They are taught not to believe what may point out as "false", kind of like trump and the media, only believe the leader or organization no matter what because everyone else is lying, not the cult leader.

As the old saying goes there is a sucker born every minute, and in this case trump has found a whole lot of them.

[MuseRider]

11. This just makes me ill.

Oh dear, where is my smelling salts? Clutching my pearls and falling into my fainting couch. I just need me a big strong man to keep me safe. Honestly, even if I was looking for that and I am certainly not, Trump would not even come close to that person. When I see him I never even think of a man. Just a big bag of mostly rotten KFC.

Sorry, I just needed to say that.

[Ohiogal]

30. Brainless ninnies.

They don't think of anything beyond their white privilege and the myth their husbands tell them that it's being taken away. And of course only another man can protect them. (I think of Trump as more of a cowardly pig than a man).

Don't any of these woman have sons that could be sent off to war if Idiot gets pissed off at South Korea or China or Iran? They disgust me.

[TomCADem]

40. That Reminds of the Wreck it Ralph Trailer at 1:40:

Do people assume that your problems are solved because a big, strong man has come into your life...

[MuseRider]

45. Nobody I know believes this anymore.

My mother did and she drove me nuts with it. Always looking for a "nice man" to solve all her problems. Jesus.

[Boomerproud]

13. Lady, you are angry at all the wrong people.

You can't change stupid.

[Olafjoy]

14. I call B.S.

I have spent the last month canvassing in Arizona. We knock on the doors of Dems and Independent voters. Every woman who has answered the door and talked to us has expressed her disgust with the orange idiot. Women STRONGLY detest him. The only anxiety we have heard is worrying that the Dems won’t prevail and send a loud enough message. We are in higher income neighborhoods with suburban, college educated women. They are angry, and they have voted.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. It's a big country, and no matter how much you've canvassed, you've seen only a small fraction.

How many of the women you're talking to are white? The majority of white women voters have picked the Democratic presidential candidate only twice since 1964. Twice.

[Hoyt]

15. Headline is the truth. Problem is that there are a lot of white wing haters in this country.

[NastyRiffraff]

16. Correcting the headline:

At Trump Rallies, White Women See a Hero Protecting a Way of Life


Also, they must be blond with long hair apparently.

I'm a white woman and I despise them.

[BigmanPigman]

21. Me too, I guess that makes me a female misogynist.

Or is it selective misogyny? It applies only to white, GOP women.

[Ohiogal]

26. LOL me too!

[Cha]

38. At trump Rallies, White Women See a Hero Protecting a Way of Life

Exactly, Riff!

FO NYT

[EffieBlack]

48. Thank you!

[Turbineguy]

17. ".... Increasingly liberal democratic party....."

If you drive backwards, people who drive forward seem to go much faster.

[RainCaster]

18. The Selling of Fear

That is all the GOP offers. Not hope, but fear.

[Sneederbunk]

19. Groping his way to victory.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. White women need to get their shit together.

[TomCADem]

39. I Think It Is More Like Exploiting Fears and Insecurities...

...based on racism.

In a nutshell, it is vote for Trump to protect you and your daughters from being raped by brown people. Of course, if you and your daughter accuse a white male, then Trumplicans will accuse you of being a lying slut.

In the end, it is just another example of how racism is used to not only oppress minorities, but the white working class, including white women, whose social security and health care are being placed at risk under Republican rule.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

41. Yes. And white women, as a whole, benefit from and are complicit in that system.

They fear losing the privilege they have under white patriarchy.

[erpowers]

56. That Is How I See Things

I agree with you that the white women who support Trump are really afraid of losing the privilege that come from their white husbands. They are not afraid of being raped, or abused by brown, or black men; they are afraid that brown and black men will be allowed to get on equal footing with white men and the benefit that white women get from being married to and/or daughters of white men will be erased. Trump is not protecting them from violence and crime; he is protecting them from an equal playing field.

[JI7]

43. white women who support this shit aren't the victim

they are the oppressors .

[DeminPennswoods]

22. What way of life is that?

The one where the husband makes all the decisions and controls the money?

[Ohiogal]

28. Evidently.

[k8conant]

34. What a load of bullshit!

Quoting k8conant, 69, a retired federal computer specialist:

"He wants to destroy our country, and he wants to keep it fearful, and he wants Russian and American fascists to rule us all."

"He understands why we're angry and he doesn't give a shit so he'll keep on doing things that anger us."

[dalton99a]

35. They're fucking hopeless

[flotsam]

36. "At Trump Rallies, Women See a Hero Protecting a Way of Life"

Wait-shouldn't they be watching Trump?

[ismnotwasm]

42. Fuck those people

[GaYellowDawg]

44. Unsurprising.

Trump supporters are dumbasses. Some Trump supporters are women. Ergo, those women are dumbasses. An article demonstrating it is largely unnecessary imo.

[LeftishBrit]

49. Fearfearfearfearfear; be very afraid!

So that you don't see that your 'protector' is the biggest danger of all!

[EffieBlack]

52. Let me fix that for you, NY Times: "At Trump Rallies, White Women See a Hero ..."

You're welcome.

Link to tweet

[Wawannabe]

53. WTF?

Silly woman that Ms Philpott.
Columbia is in rural MO but is a multi college town. Large ag demographic tho.
KC and STL usually carry the Dem vote. Need to get the people in those two huge voting districts to Get Out and Vote!

[LBM20]

55. Why is this shit even being posted? Trump Cultists are Cultists. Who gives a shit what they say?

[TomCADem]

57. Because They Vote Like Millions of Other Cultists

It is important to understand why to see what we need to do to beat Trump. For example, Trump uses his racist fear mongering to get white women to support him even though his administration has been hostile to claims of sexual harassment, and he has appointed far fewer women, then either Obama or even Bush.

[Garrett78]

58. *White* women, that is.