A liberal Muslim immigrant woman for Donald Trump???

[lpetrich]

I’m a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump. - The Washington Post
Something that seems like:

• Communists for Reagan
• Chickens for Colonel Sanders
• Blacks for the Ku Klux Klan
• Jews for Adolf Hitler
• Family farmers for Joseph Stalin

But let's see what she has to say for her very odd decision.

This is my confession — and explanation: I — a 51-year-old, a Muslim, an immigrant woman “of color” — am one of those silent voters for Donald Trump. And I’m not a “bigot,” “racist,” “chauvinist” or “white supremacist,” as Trump voters are being called, nor part of some “whitelash.”

In the winter of 2008, as a lifelong liberal and proud daughter of West Virginia, a state born on the correct side of history on slavery, I moved to historically conservative Virginia only because the state had helped elect Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States.

After describing how she voted for Donald Trump and Mike Pence, all without putting a clothespin on her nose, as far as I could tell,

I most certainly reject the trifecta of “hatred/division/ignorance.” I support the Democratic Party’s position on abortion, same-sex marriage and climate change.

She continued with

But I am a single mother who can’t afford health insurance under Obamacare. The president’s mortgage-loan modification program, “HOPE NOW,” didn’t help me. Tuesday, I drove into Virginia from my hometown of Morgantown, W.Va., where I see rural America and ordinary Americans, like me, still struggling to make ends meet, after eight years of the Obama administration.

What an argument. I am not surprised that not much was done because of the Republicans' obstructionism for all of Obama's Presidency. Obama was a cautious centrist much like Bill Clinton, and the Republicans hated those two and described them as left-wing ogres.

Finally, as a liberal Muslim who has experienced, first-hand, Islamic extremism in this world, I have been opposed to the decision by President Obama and the Democratic Party to tap dance around the “Islam” in Islamic State.

Like saying how militant Islamists are Not True Muslims.

She continued with some lame apologetic for DT's statements, saying that they had been exaggerated by the likes of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and those that they supported.

The revelations of multimillion-dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation from Qatar and Saudi Arabia killed my support for Clinton. Yes, I want equal pay. No, I reject Trump’s “locker room” banter, the idea of a “wall” between the United States and Mexico and a plan to “ban” Muslims. But I trust the United States and don’t buy the political hyperbole — agenda-driven identity politics of its own — that demonized Trump and his supporters.

again.

If she was willing to state that she hated having to choose between HRC and DT, I would have had a bit more respect for her odd choice. But she didn't.

I wrote that as a child of India, arriving in the United States at the age of 4 in the summer of 1969, I have absolutely no fears about being a Muslim in a “Trump America.” The checks and balances in America and our rich history of social justice and civil rights will never allow the fear-mongering that has been attached to candidate Trump’s rhetoric to come to fruition.

yet again. Look at history. Look at how emboldened a lot of bigots are now feeling.

 

[Playball40]

I don't believe this crap for one minute. Or she's the stupidest liberal muslim woman alive. ACA didn't "make" prices go up on health insurance. The INSURANCE COMPANIES DID and will continue to do so until the DOJ case is dropped AND the subsidies (for the providers, not users) are added back for the insurance companies. And with control of all three branches of government, her crap about the rhetoric not coming to fruition is also naive.

But honestly, I don't believe the article was written by a immigrant muslim woman.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I believe it. Every group has its share of stupid.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

True, all groups have their share of stupid people. But this story doesn't read right. I mean, the cadence of it is off or something. It seems to be trying too hard.

 

[Harry Bosch]

True, all groups have their share of stupid people. But this story doesn't read right. I mean, the cadence of it is off or something. It seems to be trying too hard.

I listened to her live interview. I think that she was sincere and smart. But obviously, something is wrong with her. Trump scared her into voting for him by convincing her that terrorists were going to get her! Trump won by appealing to people's fear, and depressing turnout.