View from the Left: Battle of the gender gaps coming to an election near you this fall
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If there's one difference between Donald Trump in 2017 and his 2018 performance it's that now he seems to be truly unplugged, untethered, unleashed. Whatever you might want to call it, we are being treated to the rawest, purest form of his madness, free froView from the Left: Battle of the gender gaps coming to an election near you this fall
If there's one difference between Donald Trump in 2017 and his 2018 performance it's that now he seems to be truly unplugged, untethered, unleashed. Whatever you might want to call it, we are being treated to the rawest, purest form of his madness, free from the mitigation of seemingly any so-called adults in the room. His rate of lying has increased exponentially. He has truly begun paling around with dictators who have quite literally starved their people and plundered their country's riches to line their own pockets. He has repeatedly embarrassed our closest allies and undermined the post-WWII international alliances that have prevented a third global war from breaking out for over half a century. And he has either threatened or torpedoed every major trade alliance we have—an occurrence that is surely going to hurt our economy, increase the price of goods, likely drive down wages in some sectors and also expendable income (which is already happening), and will almost certainly force some people to lose their livelihoods. Bottom line: We have probably not even begun to see the havoc Trump's actions are going to wreak on this country on a sweeping, coast-to-coast scale. And yet amid Trump's daily displays of erratic, uninformed, self-serving, delusional, and sometimes inexplicable antics, Trump's approval rating on Civiqs among the nation’s men has generally solidified in a positive direction throughout this year at around 49/50 percent (with an equally consistent disapproval rating at a slightly lower 46 percent). And then there's the ladies, who this year have settled on a consistent 59/60 percent disapproving view of Trump's job performance, with a corresponding 37/38 percent approval rating of him. Frankly, I'm not satisfied with either. Why Trump isn't sitting at a solid 80 percent disapproval rating (you can always count on about 20 percent of the population to approve of just about anything) is a total mystery to me. But as a woman, I find whatever general affinity half of America’s men feel for Trump entirely perplexing. While women disapprove of Trump at a rate of only ten points higher than men approve of him, politically speaking, anything 60 percent and above is typically viewed as prevailing opinion. Naturally, the breakdown by race, education, income, married/single, etc. yields all kinds of varying insights, but let's stick with the simplicity of the gender comparison because there's such a clear gender gap in perceptions of and support for Trump. Bottom line: At the moment, we're counting on a mass mobilization of female voters to save us from the dizzyingly distorted house of mirrors we've been trapped in since Trump took office. Read more