Donald Trump’s 2016 election launched a female political surge. Whether as candidates, political operatives, newly energized activists, or donors, conservative women joined with their progressive Democratic sisters to challenge Trump's racist, anti-democratic, sleazy leadership and help Democrats take back the White House in 2020. In her new book, Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump, seasoned political observer Jennifer Rubin chronicles the many ways women led the fight against the Trump administration and, she says, changed American politics forever.
From grassroots activism and social media-based organizing to the January 2017 Women’s March, from the 2018 Blue Wave midterms to the 2020 election of the first woman vice president, millions of women “transformed their own lives and recaptured our democracy from the clutches of an authoritarian narcissist.”
Rubin herself fits right into this chronology. She came to the Washington Post as a self-described conservative, but then cast her first vote for a Democratic presidential candidate – Hillary Clinton – in 2016. She became a vocal Trump critic during that campaign and, in September 2020, announced she no longer identified as a conservative. In a recent interview, she described “women warriors” as “democracy’s secret weapon.”
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As a Washington Post columnist, Jennifer Rubin covers politics and policy, foreign and domestic. In her writing and as a contributor to MSNBC, Rubin provides insights into the conservative movement, the Republican and Democratic parties, and threats to Western democracies. Her reporting priorities continue to be "the preservation of our democracy and reaffirmation of objective reality," the threat of white supremacy, and the necessity of women's political engagement for the survival of our democracy. Prior to her journalism career, she practiced labor law for two decades.
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