Donald Trump’s history of empowering women for success, both in his own employ and nationally, shows they only had one thing to protest.
The peanut gallery of the House Chamber was in disarray during President Trump's State of the Union address. The crowd of senators, representatives and their guests featured a bloc of Democrat women senators and congressional members dressed in white, with "ERA" (Equal Rights Amendment) buttons on many of their blouses. The Women in White were widely reported on in the mainstream press, such as
Time Magazine,
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
Fortune,
The Washington Post, and for the rest of the mainstream media the narrative was much the same.
That narrative was that the wearing of white was in commemoration of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to US citizens based on their sex.
As an anniversary celebration, this does make sense since the Amendment was added 100 years ago. But what does not make sense then, is why only Democrat women seem to have done this.
The New York Times gushed in its puff piece about how so many women in white gave the women's message "critical mass", but became vague when not noting clearly if any of the 13 Republican women in the House wore white, and no reference to any lady Senators and what they wore.
Comment: See also: Nouveau racism: Righteous retribution or just plain insanity?