Why misogyny won

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3. Men on the so-called left will deny they are sexist

but in fact they are worse because they objectify women even worse than those on the right. I lived through the sixties and early seventies, and I know how bad they can be.

The dudes who voted for Trump cannot be reached or reasoned with. They had decades to vote for their economic self-interest and have voted against it every single time. They are in fact unintelligent and easily conned by a demagogue whose joke candidacy was endlessly promoted by media outlets for ratings and ad revenue.

The Democratic Party should not try and help them because they are unreachable.

BTW, the term misogyny is more recent in widespread usage than the term sexism. It has been around longer, but feminists did not use it much. Misogyny refers to sexist attitudes or prejudices against women. I prefer sexism and sexist attitudes to misogyny because the latter is a softer, less blunt term. It sounds more wishy-washy. The term misogyny was not used all that much until well into the 1970s and later. The terms sexist and sexism come right out of the sixties from the women's movement which ran parallel to the civil rights movement. The terms to me convey a more serious tone than misogyny.

Nobody would try to couch the terms racism or racist in less threatening terms.