Can Republican Women Help Build A Progressive Future?
Julie Kohler, senior vice president for the Democracy Alliance, a progressive donor group, and contributor to The Nation, examines the evidence that President Trump's white female voter bloc, which he won 53 percent of the votes from in 2016, may be shifting its loyalties to the Democratic Party.
.@juliekkohler1 says we have to think about whole gamut of ways to support broader progressive base that includes more white women, including not only in-person work, but also online groups (like secret FB group Pantsuit Nation) that encourage empathy.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 31, 2018
.@juliekkohler1: We tend to think of religious communities as politicized in support of a conservative agenda, but there is interesting faith-based organizing happening from progressive standpoint. Many organizers at Action Utah, for example, are Mormon women
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 31, 2018
Some white women experienced direct interpersonal pressure from husbands to vote certain way in 2016, says @juliekkohler1, but in other cases the pressure was more systemic, eg families' decisions oriented based on men's economic prospects bc men more economically privileged
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 31, 2018
