Hillary Clinton’s recent comments represent the worst kind of sexism. While abroad Saturday at the India Today Conclave, she said that among white women, there is “[a] sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should,” and she blamed losing the white female vote to President Trump because of toxic male influence.
As a western state white woman who fits neatly into Clinton’s “deplorable” demographic, I reject her disparaging and idiotic remarks that women like me are so easily influenced by men. The truth is that women like me spoke out strongly and influenced men during the 2016 election.
I was a Trump supporter from the time he won the GOP primary, and I was an outspoken vocal supporter in local and national media as a conservative female millennial. Many conservative men actually debated me on the merits of voting for Trump. I’m proud to say that I hopefully influenced many men to vote for Trump.
For Clinton to diminish a woman’s voice merely because that woman disagrees with her or didn’t vote for her is the exact opposite of what equality is supposed to represent.
The Democratic platform is not truly one of equality and respect for women, and Clinton shows that Democrats accept women only when they agree with the party platform. This was true during the Women’s March (which refused to accept pro-life women) and continues to be true for the Left.
Conservative women are the strong, independent women who don’t need a party platform to speak up and speak out and speak truth.
We represent the Constitution and the rule of law. We represent the belief that all life has intrinsic value. We represent the idea our Founders before us understood, that every human being has rights that are pre-political. We represent and defend true freedom and liberty.
Hillary, my vote for Trump represents me, an honest to goodness American woman, and no one else.
I could not be more proud of that.
The United States will surely have a female president one day. My bet is that she will be a strong, independent, truth-telling conservative that men and women will be immensely proud to vote for.
Jenna Ellis (@jennaellisorg) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog. She is an attorney, a fellow at the Centennial Institute, a radio show host in Denver, Colo., and the author of The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution.
