In a new NBC focus group of women who support abortion rights and Donald Trump, only 1 of the participants correctly noted that he played a significant role in the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The ignorance is painful, although certainly unsurprising. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/women-support-abortion-rights-trump-focus-group-rcna136546
Three of the women who voted for Trump and also said they were feminists were asked about the juxtaposition.
They acknowledged the contradiction of their views, but did not change them.
It's getting harder to argue w/idea that political divides are caused by cognitive ones.
@mattsheffield Trump and other populists around the globe hacked the politics. Instead of rational arguments about how to run a country, they turned it into a us vs them irrational, emotional conflict about values. And there the logic doesn’t apply. It also became normal for religious people to support a candidate who cheated on his wife with a porn star....
