Women leaving the GOP face losing community and church ā€” even family

Melanie Barton-Gauss, a retired teacher from Florida, traveled to the City of Brotherly Love just weeks before the presidential election to spread her message of political conversion.Ā ā€œAfterĀ Jan. 6, I did what in my family is considered unthinkable: I left theĀ Republican Party and joined the Democrat[ic] Party. And I left theĀ church.ā€

Barton-Gauss is part of a bus tour across the key battleground state hosted byĀ Republican Voters Against TrumpĀ (RVAT). The group teamed up withĀ The Bulwark, a political outlet founded byĀ Never Trump Republicans,Ā for a series of podcast tapings and other events highlighting Republicans and former Republicans supporting Vice PresidentĀ Kamala Harris. Targeting lifelong members of the GOP who harbor doubts about anotherĀ Donald Trump term is a central strategy of the Harris campaign. RVATā€™s organizers believe there are just enough of these right-leaning voters to push dead-heat swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin over the top for Democrats.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    25Ā·
    2 months ago

    Republican women canā€™t help but notice that their partisan identity conflicts with their self-image as strong and competent women. ā€œI started to learn what misogyny was, and I started to learn what patriarchy was,ā€

    Better late than never.