The conservative code in this country, subscribed to by many American families, has good and bad aspects to it, as I see it. Conservatives believe that God (or Mother Nature) invented white males to take charge of smaller beings and to make the big decisions. That’s the natural order, in their view. Stern fathers have privileges, and that’s exactly what they deserve and what Nature intends.
But conservative white males also have duties, and one of them is to protect women and children. That’s part of the code. Clearly it is not part of Minority-President Trump’s code. He has demonstrated a stupid hated of women again and again and keeps trying to hurt them.
In the 2016 election, conservatives had to choose between a man who abused women (bad but correctable behavior, as conservatives saw it) and a bossy, assertive woman who wore pants, which conservatives viewed as a revolutionary perversion of the natural order. Many (but not all) didn’t realize that Trump was mentally ill; a majority of white women and, of course, white men voted Trump in.
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