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Cindi Leive, editor-in-chief
@cindi_leiveBadges of Honor
From left, top to bottom:
a Bernie supporter
at a campaign event;
a Trump fan at an
America First unity
rally; Katy Perry at a
Clinton rally; a Bernie
supporter taking a
selfie; pro-Hillary nail
art by Nails by Mei; a
Bernie tat; and Ivanka
Trump alongside
her nominee fathermom. He ha s t old u s, e s sent ia l ly, t hat he i s a bu mbl i ng old- school
chauvinist at best, a misogynist at worst, and a man who believes
that simply declaring “I love women”—a statement so banal any
human could make it—somehow tempers decades of disdain and
an almost-total absence of helpful policy on the issues women care
a b out. He h a s t old u s w ho he i s.
I believe him.
It goes without saying that you may not agree. There are
varied opinions even on our own team: 51 Million liberal colum-
nist Krystal Ball—“not the biggest Hillary Clinton fan to start
with,” she admits—now supports Clinton vigorously. “I have
been pleasantly surprised by the detail of her proposals, in par-
ticular college tuition reimbursement, which she worked on with
Bernie Sanders,” says Ball. “And Donald Trump is so out of sync
w it h ou r v a lue s a s A me r ic a n s .”
Her conservative counterpart, columnist
S.E. Cupp, sees things differently. “I have
come to only one logical conclusion,” she says.
“Neither of these people deserves my vote.”
A lifelong Republican, Cupp says she’d never
consider Clinton. But Trump, a man she
b e l i e v e s “ h a s w o r n t h e R e p u b l i c a n p a r t y l i k e a
rented tuxedo,” is not an option for her either:
“Both to protect the future of the party and to
tell my two-year-old son one day that I didn’t
vote for a man who openly courted white
nationalists,” she says, “he won’t get my vote.”
But make no mistake: She will go to the polls—to write in a can-
didate and to vote for state and local politicians she does respect.
“I know too many people who have fought for our country’s right to
democracy,” says Cupp. “I’d feel like a huge asshole if I took that for
granted and stayed on the couch on Election Day.”
S o le t ’s none o f u s b e on t h a t c ouc h. I k no w w ho I s upp or t , a nd
I’m proud to take that opinion to the polls (the mailbox, techni-
cally; I vote by absentee ballot, which I heartily recommend if
you’re worried that work or family commitments might derail
you on the 8th). Yes, I speak only for myself, but that, after all, is
what voting is all about. You vote your heart. I vote mine. We all
feel grateful for the privilege.Obama in 2012. The idea of expressing public support for a candi-
date would never have occurred to me in 2004, 2008, or 2012. It
may never seem appropriate again.
But this is no ordina r y race. It used to be said that jour na list s
should embrace “the view from nowhere”—a personalityless per-
spective that keeps you biting your tongue about what you really
think. But like all of us, I have a view from somewhere, and my
particular somewhere is a female place, a working-mom place, a
fan-of-young-women place. My job is listening to women and sup-
porting their right to live free, full lives. That’s my somewhere.
And while I prize objectivity, objectivity does not mean ignor-
ing facts; it means recognizing them—and the facts are that, in
this race, one of the two major candidates is an experienced
public servant, while the other sports a decades-long résumé of
dismissiveness toward women and their concerns. For me, the
only option is Hillary Clinton. Over the 24 years
since she hit the national stage, she has cham-
pioned wage equity, health-care access, and
the human rights of women worldwide. When
I’ve interviewed her, I’ve found her wildly well-
prepared and genuinely passionate on the issues
that affect our lives: from universal concerns
like the economy to issues like reproductive
health that hit women hard. She has not waged a
perfect campaign, and as you’ll see on page 172,
many of you have real, valid questions for her
about trust and policy. But Clinton has survived a brutal hazing
process to emerge as a qualified candidate with a true commit-
ment to women—which, by the way, has less to do with the fact that
she is a woman and more to do with how she sees us. “I hope that
m y p r e s i d e n c y w i l l b r i n g p e o p l e t o g e t h e r b e h i n d t h e g o a l o f a m o r e
just, fair, equal, and respectful society, in which women and girls
are accorded the same dignity as men and boys,” she tells Glamour.
Her opponent has a different attitude. There’s a line from Maya
Angelou that has been invoked increasingly in the media over the
last weeks: When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
And through his actions and words, Donald Trump has told us that
he c ondone s wh it e suprema c y. That i f a woma n i s bei ng ha ra s se d
at work , she shou ld f i nd a new job. That rape i n t he m i l it a r y i s t he
inevitable result of having women serve. He has told us—before he
got clobbered for it—that he would support “some form of punish-
ment” for the roughly one in four of you reading this story who have
had an abortion. That he’s willing to dismiss professional women
he doesn’t c a re for a s hav ing “t he fa ce of a dog ” or “a fat a ss.” That
he is up for mocking the grief of a Muslim American Gold Star
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