In mid-October, after the revelation that Donald Trump had bragged about his compulsion to make unwanted physical advances on women, a Wisconsinite named Marybeth Glenn took to social media and published a “tweetstorm,” a series of 17 Twitter entries, that encapsulate and personify a little-noted aspect of the existential crisis into which the Donald Trump candidacy has plunged the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
“I, a conservative female, have spent years defending the Republican Party against claims of sexism,” she wrote. “When I saw Republican men getting attacked I stood up for them. I came to their defense. I fought on their behalf. I fought on behalf of a movement I believed in. I fought on behalf of my principles while other women told me I hated my own sex.”
Glenn specifically mentions having worked to help her governor, Scott Walker, survive a recall and having labored for Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. Then came 2016: “Now some Trojan horse nationalist sexual predator invades the GOP, eating it alive, and you cowards sit this one out? He treats women like dogs, and you go against everything I—and other female conservatives—said you were and back down like cowards.”
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