Rachel Should Be Scaring Some Repubs Tonight

[JimGinPA]

Women are angry.


So am I.

[Jarqui]

1. It's another low when many thought they couldn't go much lower

[nolabear]

2. I hope she's right and this gets translated into action.

[Sherman A1]

3. One wonders

just how many Republicans watch the mentioned show? I suspect that she is not scaring any of them.

[JimGinPA]

6. Apparently More People Watch Her Than Any Other News Program In Her Time Slot

Odds are it's not a secret.

[Sherman A1]

8. That may be true,

How many of those watching are Republicans that you believe she is scaring so badly?

[JimGinPA]

11. My OP Was Actually Referring To Repub Political Figures

Sorry that wasn't clear. If you get a chance you should watch. The first segment was fairly long & about a Democrat from my hometown.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I think we women have exercised admirable restraint

because we haven't burned the whole damn thing to the ground.

That's how enraged we are, though.

[BigmanPigman]

19. I was half expecting a semi-revolution.

I am beyond scorned and I am FURIOUS!

[MadDAsHell]

21. Problem is, "we women" is not a homogeneous voting bloc.

Something like 30% of “we women” who voted in 2016 voted for Trump.

Something like 40% of “we women” are anti-choice.

The narrative that genitalia or race some how defines and guarantees us the vote of a single voting block is part of the problem, in my honest opinion. It causes huge seats of voters to be ignored because, “Hey, they’re women, there’s NO WAY they’ll vote for Drumpf!!”

[Agschmid]

5. The majority of white women, who voted, voted for Trump.

They knew damn well what he was.

[JimGinPA]

7. That's A False Meme

Maybe the majority of white women who voted did, but not the majority of white women.

[still_one]

13. An excellent point

[Kaleva]

14. Yes but not voting had the same effect as voting for Trump.

Trump would have lost bigly had white women split their vote 50/50

[Agschmid]

24. Yup.

[zentrum]

18. Exactly so.

[Agschmid]

23. Corrected.

[Sophiegirl]

17. THIS white woman didn't!

And it sickens me that so many did.

[Awsi Dooger]

9. I don't think Rachel scares anybody

Her election-year evaluation of the terrain and most relevant variables is as poor as anybody I've ever seen.

We need Trump's approval rating to drop. That basic number is going to impact one close race after another. Today it reached 42.2% for the first time since June 26. Three weeks ago on September 14 it was 39.9%.

I hope Trump uses this Kavanaugh confirmation to make an ass of himself every day and night. Independent voters are causing that rise in approval rating. We need some trigger to knock it down again.

[MountCleaners]

10. Plenty of time to knock him down again

While this Kavanaugh shit monopolized the headlines, he got deeper and deeper in shit. It will happen.

[Merry Sunshine]

12. Will Trump make an ass of himself?

Does a bear defecate in the woods? How can he help himself? It's already back in the news as Melania wears a racist hat in Africa. These people can't help themselves; asking him to be presidential is like asking him not to breathe.

[greymattermom]

15. Yep

and it stuck to his shoe.

[JHan]

22. I don't think Trump's approval rating will ever get really low.

Hoover got nearly 40% of the vote while displaying astonishing tone-deafness to the plight of Americans during the great depression and even Nixon's rating never dipped below 25%. So much of this is driven by rank partisanship.

Like you I hope Trump makes an ass of himself and continues to drive women away from the GOP - well the semi-sane ones at least.

As for Rachel, she's drawing an analogy with Dickson's loss to Carol Moseley Braun due to the fallout from the Clarence Thomas decision. Watching the repeat now.

[Honeycombe8]

16. So am I. This is outrageous. It really is. I hadn't realized how bad women's position is here.

How we don't count. (This includes women of all races & ethnicities.)

But my anger wouldn't scare them, I think, since I was going to vote Democratic ticket, anyway. And we internet Dems are pretty reliable voters, I would think.

Thing is...I wonder if other women are feeling the same way. I don't know.

[RainCaster]

20. My daughter was so depressed by the vote

She could not get inspired by Rachel's show tonight.