Two female Trump voters in a row yesterday!

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I probably have a fair number of Trump voters in my practice, but most know better than to discuss politics with me if they’re right wing. I’m not exactly sure why, because I don’t telegraph too much to people, but this fortunately has been the case for many years.

But yesterday, my first patient of the day, a 45-year-old female of the Caucasian persuasion, a former model, very gentle and fragile, with a very bad series of marital histories, asked me for whom I was voting if I would not mind telling her. So I said quite explicitly that since Trump was destroying the country at every level and every fiber of his being, I was going to vote for Joe Biden. She nodded, and said that she did not particularly like Biden and she was going to vote for Trump AGAIN (emphasis mine). And then she quickly added, I hope I didn’t upset you. My reply to her was it’s not so much that I’m upset, but somewhat surprised that a woman who has been through what she’d been through and are so emotionally sensitive to other people’s’ needs would vote for him for President of the United States. Amazingly, she did not contradict me or assert anything other than with a nod. Of course I just let it go at that point since I didn’t bring it up in the first place.

Second patient, also Caucasian but 85 years old, quite with it, quite the well-read individual, Jewish, who started her life in a row home in West Philadelphia and became rather well to do from her marriage to a prominent physician, proceeded to tell me all the wonderful things that Trump had done for the country. Being that I Can be quite chameleon like, I hastened to add “enthusiastically” and for Israel too of course! She nodded her head and I commenced my dental work upon her.

Objectively, both of these women are attractive, lovely to talk to in all other respects, well educated, well comported, otherwise seemingly humanistic and other-oriented, and yet…

I have known both of them for a total of 72 years, and quite frankly had no idea at all whatsoever that they held these political views. It just goes to show you that there is a hidden mess of these voters out there even where you don’t expect it, and I will say one thing about both of them which is consistent with my theory of female Trump voters and that is that they were both abused in various ways during their marriages. For that you’re going to have to take my word but They were. It is very common for me to see this Connection, and although from a scientific standpoint it is certainly not proven, I have very strong feelings that identification with the aggressor is a very big part of his Fanbase. On this level, I see this is two personal tragedies, and in a crazy way,a loss for me personally.