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The Reason White Women Vote Trump Is Sicker Than We Thought | Channel 100 News with Evie | YouTubeToText
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Every four years, America runs the same
experiment. Change the candidates, keep
the pattern. Black women vote for
progress. White women vote for control.
In 2016, 52% of white women chose Donald
Trump. In 2020, 55%. And in 2024, still
more than half. How did the group most
targeted by his misogyny become one of
his strongest allies? I wanted to find
out not as a journalist but as a white
woman. This is the story of white
womanhood fear and the illusion of protection.
Since the earliest versions of American
womanhood, the angel in the house, the
homemaker, the moral guardian, white
women have been told that safety comes
from alignment. align with your husband,
your church, your flag, and in return,
you'll be protected from chaos, from
crime, from men who aren't yours.
Historically, that protection was
inseparable from whiteness itself. White
women's purity was also used to justify
lynching, segregation, immigration bans.
The story of protecting our women has
kind of always been code for protecting
our hierarchy. Sociologists call this
the patriarchal bargain. Philosopher
Kate Man calls it something sharper, a
moral economy of misogyny. In her book,
Downgirl, she writes, "Misogyny's
function is to police and enforce a
patriarchal order by rewarding women who
conform and punishing those who don't."
That emotional logic, reward the
obedient, shame the defiant, still
shapes world politics. Act two, 2016.
white fright. When Trump descended that
golden escalator in 2015, his audience
wasn't the downtrodden working class
we'd heard so much about. It was people
who felt their status slipping.
Political scientist Christopher Parker
in the conversation in 2016 called it
white fright. He argued that Trump's
victory had at least as much to do with
support from voters who remained
unencumbered by economic anxiety as
those driven by it. He wrote, "Rapid
social change, which poses a threat to
this tricated version of American
identity, activates anxiety and anger on
the part of those who lay claim to this
identity. Many Trump supporters believe
themselves to be losing their country.
They weren't voting for change. They
were voting for a rewind to a version of
America where white Christian
heterosexual men reigned and white women
were safely beside them." And here's
what's also crazy. Education didn't
inoculate anyone. College educated white
voters supposedly more tolerant still
leaned Republican. As Parker put it,
"The boundaries of American identity
intersect with whiteness, patriarchy,
xenophobia, and homophobia. Donald Trump
sold nostalgia as safety, and white
women bought it." Act three, the moral
mirror. By 2020, millions of women had
marched in protest, worn hats, and
said never again. But then they voted
for him again. According to NBC exit
polls in 2020, among white women, 43%
supported Joe Biden and 55% supported
President Donald Trump. That was
virtually identical to 2016. Reporter
Amanda Becka noted that these voters
said they didn't like the president's
rhetoric, his handling of the pandemic.
Ultimately, they chose to stand by him.
So, what happened? Enter Kate Man's next
insight, disgust. She argues that white
women often act as moral enforcers
within the patriarchy, the gatekeepers
of goodness. Disgust is their tool. It
lets obedience feel righteous. When
crowds chanted, "Lock her up about
Hillary Clinton," that wasn't policy.
That was purification. Psychologically,
disgust separates the clean from the
contaminating. It's why some white women
can call Trump vulgar, but still see him
as the less disgusting option, the one
protecting them from feminists,
immigrants, or woke ideology. They're
not necessarily voting for cruelty.
They're voting for order. They just
refuse to see that those are the same
thing. Act four, the protector king.
Nowhere is the emotional contract
clearer than among Christian women. In
January this year, Mother Jones
interviewed psychologist Kate Gadini,
who studies evangelical women. She
describes what she saw at the Liberty
University after the 2024 election. They
felt like this was God's will. He has
spared the nation by giving us Trump.
Even after we've made so many mistakes,
he's giving us one last chance to get it
right. Gardini told Mother Jones that
for these women, Trump's appeal operates
on multiple planes. It's the sense of
having a protector and a defender in
Trump. He's going to protect us from
this woke liberal elite that wants to
take us down. The left is concerned with
wokeness and identity politics, while
Trump is concerned that you can't afford
a tank of gas. He's going to protect our
country from China. He's going to
protect our borders. That protector
identity operates on so many different
levels and is hugely effective with
these women. Here's the line that kind
of sums it up. Trump said at a few
campaign rallies, "I want to protect the
woman." One Christian woman I
interviewed said she wept when she heard
that because it was so resonant with
what she needed. Protection is at the
heart of the contract, the emotional
transaction that makes hierarchy feel
holy. Gazini continues, "Within their
gendered system, women are the soft,
nurturing ones, the caretakers. Men are
the strong ones, protectors, and
defenders. This gendered system is built
into conservative Christianity. So, it
makes sense that they would apply that
to politics and want a candidate who
fits that mold." In 2016, she says Trump
projected a kind of devil make
masculinity they found quite attractive.
Whereas in 2024, he seen more of a
protective fatherly or even
grandfatherly figure. The swagger turned
paternal. The misogynist became the
father figure and that made obedience
feel safe again. Act five, the paradox
of the protected. Protection always
needs a threat. A protector with no
danger to fight loses his purpose and so
does the person that he protects. That's
the paradox. Safety depends on fear. And
in Trump's America, fear is infinite.
Fox News fills screens with crime waves,
border invasions, gender chaos. Each new
threat reactivates the emotional
contract. As Mother Jones reported, the
younger women are getting a lot of their
news from social media. What they're
hearing is that the liberal left hates
them. For mothers, their sense of
needing protection is all around
children. They need to protect their
children as mothers and they need a
paternalistic figure as president to
protect their children on a larger
scale. And for older women, their
primary concern tends to be immigration.
Keeping our neighborhoods safe, keeping
women and girls safe from perceived
physical threats and immigrant men. In
this worldview, every cultural change
from racial justice protest to trans
rights becomes a home invasion. The
emotional pattern repeats. 1920s KKK
promised to defend white womanhood.
1960s John Burch Society promised to
defend Christianity. 2016 MAGA promised
to defend real America. Act six. 2024
and 2025. The contract renews after
Trump managed to get back in. The
Guardian reported that Trump's return to
power was powered once again by the
loyalty of white women voters,
especially those without college
degrees. The piece noted that Harris
narrowed down the gender gap, but not
the racial one. White women broke 5643
for Trump. Meanwhile, the Pew Research
Cent's 2025 demographic study found that
white women, especially those who
identified as born again or evangelical,
remained among Trump's most reliable
supporters, even as his share among
white men, started to decline slightly.
This isn't an anomaly. This is
endurance. The contract holds, and it
just keeps rebranding itself. What began
as family values became law and order,
then anti-woke and protect the children.
It's the same deal. It just has new
flashy packaging. Act seven, the other
half. There's an easy way to flatten the
story. To call these women brainwashed
or ignorant or complicit, but that
misses the deeper truth. They're
emotionally fluent in a system that
rewards their fear. Meanwhile, black
women, Latina organizers, queer
activists, they keep expanding democracy
from the margins. In 2020, black women's
turnout in Georgia flipped the Senate.
As Alternate reported, black women got
the vote out in urban centers, making
for the close results in Georgia,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina. Black
women organized communities to vote. So
while white women voted to preserve
safety, black women voted to create
safety. Act eight, the rebrand of
submission. The new conservative
feminism doesn't call itself submissive,
it calls itself empowered. Gadini again,
the new role model is Amy Coney Barrett.
She's married to a man. She has tons of
kids. And yet she's on the Supreme Court
advocating conservative values. It's a
version of having it all. She notes that
many Christian women now say, "I want to
have the choice to work part-time or
work full-time or stay home with my kids
and homeschool. I want to have that
option." Crazy. Because we fought for
heaps of years for you to have that
option. Then you voted to take it away.
You're so crazy. They've absorbed
feminist language, choice, empowerment,
all to defend patriarchal outcomes.
Gadini calls it feminism infiltrating
their conservative sphere, propelling
them forward even as they oppose it. In
other words, the contract adapts. It
learns the language of liberation to
preserve the logic of control. Act nine,
the mirror moment. If we zoom out,
Trumpism isn't just about one guy. It's
a big mirror showing white women the
reflection we weren't actually supposed
to see. Because I'm one of them. I'm a
white woman. And it's uncomfortable to
admit that people who look like me,
people raised on the same Disney
feminism and suburban safety drills, are
some of the most dependable foot
soldiers in a movement built on fear. A
movement that takes rights from us, that
hides the Epstein files, protects
rapists, and even elects one into
office. It's a movement that I'm
genuinely terrified by. It forces the
question, what does safety mean if it
always comes at someone else's expense?
That's the moral reckoning hiding inside
of all the data and the numbers.
Breaking the contract.
Maybe the contract is starting to
expire. Younger women, multi-racial
coalitions, even some suburban voters
are beginning to see safety differently.
Not as walls, but more like as networks.
security, not from protection, but from
solidarity. But breakups are messy.
Because what white women were promised
wasn't money or power. It was safety.
And giving that up feels like danger. If
democracy dies, it won't be because one
man broke it. It'll be because women
kept it running. The paradox of the
protected is this. The safer they feel,
the smaller the rest of us become. If
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