During the latest stop of Hillary Clinton’s sore loser tour, the failed candidate whined to a foreign audience that white women voted for Donald Trump because they felt pressure to do so from their husbands, bosses, and sons.
Well, Hillary, I’ve got some news for you: I’m a white woman and I voted for Donald Trump despite what the men in my life told me to do.
If men could shame white women into voting for someone, we all would have voted for Hillary Clinton. During the 2016 election cycle, it was impossible to turn on the news without hearing Joe Scarborough, Jake Tapper, or some other all-knowing man tell me that if I, a woman, cared about women, I’d cast my ballot to ensure the election of the first-ever female president.
The mainstream media reduced the election to sound bites and thought all women would go along with it. They played recent clips of Clinton saying that women are empowered and can do whatever they want. Conveniently, they ignored her attacks on any woman who posed a threat to her. Hillary Clinton destroyed the women with whom her husband had affairs. After all, nothing screams pro-woman like hiring a private investigator to dig up dirt on a woman your husband manipulated into “not having sexual relations” with him.
The media also played 10-year-old clips of Donald Trump making crude, out-of-context comments. They left out any substantive discussion of how his policies and staffing decisions had elevated women. A year after the election, the media still won’t discuss it. Luckily, one look at Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Nikki Haley, and many other women in the administration show President Trump is leading by example.
The media and Clinton forgot that an election isn’t decided on cherry-picked sound bites. Women actually care about policy. This might come as a shock to Clinton and company, but we are smart enough to make our own decisions.
The male professors at my school used their positions of authority to talk down to the women in my classes, telling us that we should vote for Clinton unless we wanted all of our rights to be taken away — of course they were alluding to abortion.
White women, like all women, are strong, independent thinkers. To suggest otherwise is demeaning. We care about the economy, we care about national security, and we care about the Second Amendment. We don’t simply care about the free abortions and birth control the Democratic party has tried to bribe us with.
Since casting my ballot for Donald Trump, I haven’t once regretted my decision. I’m paying less in taxes, I’m no longer forced by the government to buy healthcare, and I am confident I’ll have a job when I graduate from college.
So, Hillary, here’s some advice from one white woman to another: Get over yourself. White women are just as capable as every other woman to make their own decisions. You didn’t lose because white women did what men told them to do. You lost because you were a bad candidate with bad policies.
