@MikeDunnAuthor it would be funny to respond to those conservatives by pointing out that if she was DEI hire then it would have been Trump promoting that DEI program
She was a de facto DEI hire. Trump promised to replace a woman with a woman?
Why?
It would be hard to argue that it's because he respects women, or that he believes they're just as capable as men.
More likely, he chose her (and promised to replace a woman with a woman) because he didn't want to alienate women voters; and b/c he thought it would give Dems 1 less issue to criticize when they opposed her; and b/c he could throw any criticism back in their face by saying, "See, I hired a woman. Diversity. Inclusion."
@MikeDunnAuthor I think more importantly, as I recall he used the same sort of language that Biden used and that conservatives held against him.
So, it's the kind of thing where we should have been emphasizing to Trump supporters that their guy had done the things that they said they were against, had really betrayed them and failed them in the first term, so they should regard him as the loser that he was.
Unfortunately that's not the strategy people used so he got let off the hook.
