Jill Filiopovic, Cosmopolitan – February 9, 2016
The combined spectacle of Cruz’s win and Trump’s popularity is more reflective of just how agnostic, if not outright hostile, many in the United States (particularly its more conservative citizens) remain to women’s changing social roles, and how much fear politicians can generate at the mere specter of a decline in unilateral power so long enjoyed by white American men. Trump’s candidacy isn’t the death knell of social conservatism or the Republican Party. It’s what happens when the religious right’s promises of a better life through faith don’t pan out, but the male entitlement, distrust of intellectualism, and racial animosity bred by the movement remain.
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