Politico has a long piece probing the difficulties of being a female Republican lawmaker or candidate in the age of misogynist pervert cretin Donald Trump. It's mostly depressing. How does Rep. Martha Roby come back after—gasp—criticizing Trump for his rancid "grab them by the -----" remarks? (Answer: by being studiously obsequious towards Trump on all other occasions.) How do Republican candidates feel about being "discriminated against" by other women for supporting Captain Trash Fire? (It's hurtful, and you and your swear-word-having signs and condom-waving daughters are very uncouth.)
The piece features National Republican Congressional Committee Deputy Chair Ann Wagner offering that she simply proclaims "I'm focused on results" when confronted about Trump's malevolence toward women, which is a very Paul Ryanesque way to say that you'll put up with whatever garbage fires you have to put up with in exchange for another round of sweet, sweet tax cuts. Yes, that is indeed exactly how we got to the place we are at, and exactly how the Republican Party found itself stumping for child molesters and frantically throwing chaff at an investigation into Russian election tampering in the first place. Because of the "I'm focused on results" part, and not the "these are terrible human beings committing acts that should immediately disqualify them from the public trust" part.
But the best summary of the current state of Republican women in the age of Trump is probably this: Politico's primary difficulty in putting the flattering profile of Republican women together was finding House Republican women willing to even be interviewed on the subject.
Questions about what its like to be a women in the age of Trump appear to strike a nerve with some female Republicans. POLITICO reached out to well over half of the female members in the House. But most of them, including Roby, declined to be interviewed or ignored emails.
House Republicans ignoring reporters during an election year? Yeah. That's a pretty good indication of how things are going—and it’s almost certain that it’s the in the age of Trump premise of Politico’s query that sent those lawmakers running. If you’re running for election as a Republican this year, the only thing more important than free publicity is making sure you don’t say anything in the next two months that risks angering the Hate Pumpkin. So talking to reporters about the trials his big mouth has put you through is not, by any measure, a wise move.