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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Dem, left of left of center, as in the Bernie and AOC wing of the progressive Democrats. And still, I'm coming to terms with this take on American culture: The first woman president will be a Republican.

I personally would vote for AOC or any of the younger Democrats being talked about now. But she won't win. If America votes for a woman, it will be a woman who does not threaten the male ego. She will be conservative but code moderate, simply by being softspoken and having gentle mannerisms. She will be attractive, probably white, probably of a slender build, and definitely a mother. Most likely of a WASP or northern European background.

I used to think Kristi Noem fit the bill until she bragged about shooting a dog. But generally she will fit the profile of a Mama Grizzly conservative, "tough" only in the pro-America red-blooded right wing kind of way, stroking the alpha male aesthetic ego. She won't be a pantsuit girlboss. She would win independents and moderate Democrats only because so much of this country is ill-informed about politics in that a woman - a softspoken woman, not someone outwardly crazy like MTG or Lauren Boebert - would "code moderate" just because she's a woman.

The first woman president will be nonthreatening and pleasing to the male gaze, and she will be subservient to a white male VP. But the GOP will get to claim the historic milestone of the first woman president. [/quote]

Noem has always been awful and there were scandals during her governorship:
https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2021/09/03/controversy-penitentiary-over-governor-noems-desk-order/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/30/politics/kristi-noem-south-dakota-investigation/index.html
https://www.sdnewswatch.org/special-report-how-gov-kristi-noem-rode-shifting-political-winds-to-pierre-and-possibly-back-to-d-c/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-sued-over-release-of-travel-expense-records

She was also banned from all of SD's reservations. One reservation rescinded the ban after the inauguration in hopes of a reset with the administration. 
Among the change orders for her desk, by the way, was to include a gun drawer. You never know when a goat or a puppy might need to be taken out on the spot. 
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