The sad truth is that anti-feminist backlash helped propel Trump to victory | Malaika Jabali

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Trump is an expert at that.
60% : Trump, in his own words, has taken it.
54% : I've heard them throughout my years of reporting in Wisconsin, a state that has become a major battleground since Trump flipped it Republican for the first time in about 30 years in 2016.
36% : Trump didn't get there just by appealing to white men.
35% : Since Trump was last in office, a plethora of podcasts and media personalities - peddling more pseudo-science than political science - has emerged, framing women as both oppressors and second-class citizens.
33% : And here comes Trump barreling back into the White House in a manosphere partly of his own making.
29% : These are often men who have few similarities to billionaires such as Trump, but who have felt their social and financial status threatened by some "other", whether real or imagined.
27% : Project 2025 - a set of policy plans that Trump has denied being involved with but just so happens to have been written by many of the people from his first presidential administration - would allow hospitals to deny emergency, life-saving abortions to pregnant patients while also limiting access to birth control.
26% : Before appealing to these enraged (and increasingly lonely) men, Trump embraced a faux-populist sensibility that may have helped cement his approval, though I doubt it was necessary to earn the vote of most white men - as Republicans who never pretended to be populist (such as Mitt Romney) got a similar majority of the male vote, as they have each presidential election this century.
25% : Trump and his Republican party have long tapped into that resentment.
18% : Of course, Trump has proven to be an enemy of working-class white men.

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