Analysis: Actually, Nikki Haley, liberals aren’t the ones more likely to be sexist
By the way, she wrote, “it’s always the liberals who are the most sexist.” This rejoinder triggered another avalanche of commentary in the right-wing media, which Haley then retweeted. The system works.Since we’re evaluating each other’s arguments, though, let’s evaluate that one. It is presumably not the case that Haley thinks only liberals are ever sexist; however optimistic her 51 years on this Earth have been, I suspect she has on at least one occasion encountered a sexist conservative.
In 1974, most conservatives said men were better-suited for politics than women. The gap between conservatives and liberals on that question was 28 points, more than twice the liberal value. In 2018, only 1 in 5 conservatives held that position, but that was still more than twice the percentage of liberals.
Some might argue that this is not a direct measure of sexism. I would disagree, but it is beside the point. In the ANES survey from 2020 we have results that get closer to the idea on which Haley was offering judgment. Those are assessments not of how gender has been viewed but of how women act and their intentionality. In each case, conservatives are significantly more likely to hold views that cast women in a negative light.There’s one more question from the ANES that speaks both to Haley’s rebuttal to Lemon and to her actual candidacy.
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