Article 6S67T ‘Your body, my choice’: what misogynistic Trump supporters feel about sexual power | Moira Donegan

‘Your body, my choice’: what misogynistic Trump supporters feel about sexual power | Moira Donegan

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Moira Donegan
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Young pro-Trump men have rolled out a creepy, snide and all-too-revealing mantra

You can't say it was a fluke. If in 2016, Donald Trump's novelty, combined with his loss of the popular vote, allowed liberals to retain a bit of plausible deniability about what his presidential win meant about America, this time, there is no such comfort. Donald Trump is no longer a mystery or an amusing diversion: no one can claim that they do not understand full extent of his malignant corruption, or the seriousness of his movement's hostility to pluralist democracy. And he won the popular vote.

Many postmortems of last week's election have tried to preserve the notion that Trump's voter's did not endorse him and his vision - that they know not what they do. This is dishonest, and a bit patronizing toward Trump's supporters. Trump's voters, for the most part, know exactly what he is, and what voting for him means. They are not ignorant or mistaken about him. They endorse him and what he is.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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