Two letters to the editor from today’s Wall Street Journal:
It appears liberal elites have learned nothing from Donald Trump’s victory if Democratic pollster Ann Greenberg is representative (“Groups of Women Voters Hurt Clinton,” U.S. News, Nov. 12). She concluded that there are women “who are skeptical about women’s political leadership” and that “we still live in a sexist country.”
As an older woman, a former clerical worker, who voted for Mr. Trump, I understand why blue-collar women voted as they did. I voted for him not because I am irrationally prejudiced against female leadership, but because I examined Mr. Trump’s policy positions and compared them to Hillary Clinton’s. Mrs. Clinton is a liberal progressive and made clear she would carry forward Barack Obama’s program. This would be contrary to my principles, which are free market and conservative. Mr. Trump spoke to my own policy concerns. Hillary did not. It’s that simple. My vote was hardly based on sexism.
We live in a country where progressive elites disdain ordinary women. They just cannot believe we are anything other than biased and ignorant.
Ellen Pollack
BaltimoreOnce again the experts have dropped the ball. Women aren’t skeptical about women’s political leadership. They are skeptical about Hillary Clinton’s political leadership. Do the experts regard it as remotely possible for someone, regardless of gender, to vote against a woman without being “sexist?” Who indeed is being sexist here?
Mark Quinn
Naperville, Ill.
