Gloria Steinem: Trump Won't Be My President

"It does feel like a vote against the social justice movements"

With the loss of Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem may never get to see her lifelong dream – one she worked 45 years for – of seeing a woman president. To cope, she has devised a false reality for herself in which President-elect Donald Trump is actually not in the White House, at least for her. 

"I'm not going to disobey the law, but I'm not going to pretend he represents me," she told PRI. "I feel as if this is a vote against the future and the future is going to happen anyway.”

Steinem then lamented how Trump's election dealt a crushing blow to a movement she helped start in the 1960's. 

"It does feel like a vote against the social justice movements that have made so much change and actually changed the majority opinion," she continued before declaring Trump's presidency is "doomed to failure."

Employing some irony, Steinem then criticized the working class Trump supporter as entitled, even though she spent her entire life educating women to feel entitled to anything they want, including taxpayer-funded abortions on-demand and free birth control.  

"A man will say to me, ‘A black woman took my job,'" she began. "But, who said it was your job? It’s a sense of entitlement that he has that he was brought up with, that he deeply believes — and it’s going away."

Steinem says this entitlement will go away because of diversity. Perhaps she's unaware of, or fully champions, diverse minorities launching hashtag revolts as #OscarsSoWhite demanding more people of color in acting categories at the Academy Awards.  

"We’re going to understand other countries better, it’s going to be a more interesting culture," she concluded. "We’re going to have better food."

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