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I first heard about this paper from a clip on The Karen Hunter Show<\/em> on SiriusXM, Why Did Women Vote for Donald Trump?<\/em> The clip wasn\u2019t the authors themselves, Mark Setzler and Alixandra Yanus of High Point University. It was a breakdown. An interpretation. A man explaining what he believed the study really meant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ran it back a few times to make sure I heard him right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His framing was simple: Why Conservative Women Vote Against Their Own Interests.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He zeroed in on white women without a college degree. Said there were 47 million of them and that more than 60% voted for Trump. The numbers matter\u2014but it was the reasoning that stuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, he said many of these women believe people of color don\u2019t deserve what they have. That inequality isn\u2019t systemic, it\u2019s personal. If you don\u2019t have it, you didn\u2019t earn it. Lazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, he said they are not inspired by successful women. They\u2019re threatened by them. Success doesn\u2019t feel like possibility\u2014it feels like loss. Like somebody else got something that was supposed to be theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So they don\u2019t vote for healthcare.
They don\u2019t vote for wages.
They don\u2019t vote for education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They vote for the world to stay exactly as it is\u2014even if that world isn\u2019t working for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for many, their vote is tied to the status of their husband. His position becomes the reference point. His standing becomes the ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sat with that and said to myself\u2026 yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can see them. The rallies. The outfits. The head-to-toe MAGA uniforms like it\u2019s less about politics and more about belonging\u2014white women at those rallies decked out in so much Trump\/MAGA gear they look like a loyalist table at a flea market. The same people screaming about the Constitution who couldn\u2019t tell you how it opens. The ones who hate Obamacare but love their Affordable Care Act coverage. The ones blaming immigrants for factories that were shut down by machines years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I went and read the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course, it doesn\u2019t say any of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic language never does. It smooths everything out. Turns hard edges into soft phrases. It talks about \u201cracial resentment\u201d and \u201cambivalent sexism.\u201d It asks questions like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIrish, Italians, and Jews overcame prejudice\u2026 Blacks should do the same without special favors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And right there, it tells you everything about the lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irish. Italians. Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groups that were once on the outside of whiteness\u2014but over time were allowed to move inside it. They could blend, assimilate, become part of the default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And let\u2019s not pretend that door opened out of kindness. It opened when whiteness decided it needed to expand\u2014politically, economically, socially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black doesn\u2019t have that option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can\u2019t hide inside whiteness, sorry Tim and Byron. And most of us wouldn\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That question doesn\u2019t compare struggle\u2014it erases the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It pretends the starting line was and the finish line kept moving for all non-whites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So no\u2014the paper doesn\u2019t say what the clip said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the clip said what people recognize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s stop playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women hate on women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not always. Not all. But enough that you recognize it when it shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn\u2019t come out as hate. It comes out sideways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe thinks she\u2019s better than everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wonder how she got that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMust be nice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or the one that always carries just enough edge to let you know what it really means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy for her\u2026 but\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not policy. That\u2019s instinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when a woman is successful, that instinct gets louder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because success forces comparison. Comparison forces reflection. And reflection is uncomfortable when you don\u2019t like what you see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So instead of inspiration, it turns into resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the part people won\u2019t say out loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some of these women, seeing another woman rise doesn\u2019t feel like possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They look in the mirror and can only see where they are at not where they could go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if they don\u2019t like where they are in life, they\u2019re not going to admit that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re going to reject the reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So they question her.
They diminish her.
They explain her success away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She didn\u2019t earn it.
She got help.
She had an advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anything but the truth staring back at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if that\u2019s how you process the world, then of course you don\u2019t vote for change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t vote for policies that might shift the balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t vote for a system that might elevate someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You vote to keep everything exactly as it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because even if the system isn\u2019t working for you\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

it\u2019s still working enough to tell you who you\u2019re above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And don\u2019t let her be Black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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