"the angry white men who propped up Trump’s return to the White House ignored everything they say they valued – the military, law enforcement and God – to give into the rage of white grievance, the 'pastiche of sweaty anger' that the Trump-Vance campaign peddled, and to the fear and violence embedded in the 'great replacement' theory.
Once again, unfortunately, the anger about a multi-racial democracy has put the viability of the United States in jeopardy."
"Sexist and abusive attacks on women, like 'your body, my choice' and 'get back to the kitchen,' have surged across social media since Donald Trump’s reelection, according to an analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue."
~ Clare Duffy
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“There was perhaps no clearer measure of white solidarity than the actions of white women in 2016. The majority of them — 53 percent — disregarded the common needs of women and went against a fellow white woman to vote with their power trait, the white side of their identities to which Trump appealed, rather than help an experienced woman, and themselves, make history.”
~ Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, p. 328
“Fascist opposition to gender studies, in particular, flows from its patriarchal ideology. National Socialism targeted women’s movements and feminism generally; for the Nazis, feminism was a Jewish conspiracy to destroy fertility among Aryan women.”
~ Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, p. 43).
"Absent an understanding of the role of Southern white sexism in this realignment, racism and religiosity read as two chapters of separate books. They were and are an ensemble cast in the same story."
~ Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics, p. 9
"What started as a defense of traditional gender roles morphed into an offensive drive for Christian nationalism, in part sparked by southern, white, primarily Christian women who demonstrated against their own liberation."
~ Ibid., p. 10
“In 2016, the idea of a female president was not an abstraction, but a real possibility. In the end, whites who live in the South, particularly white women, played a big part in Hillary Clinton's loss.”
~ Ibid., p. 207
"Throughout the world at the present day, the most easily heard tone in religion (not just Christianity) is of a generally angry conservatism. Why? I would hazard that the anger centres on a profound shift in gender roles which have traditionally been given a religious significance and validated by religious traditions."
~ Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, pp. 990-1
