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In a sense, gravity is catching up with Trump after “Access Hollywood,” Roy Moore, talk of women “bleeding,” and a #MeToo movement that has reached everywhere but the male-dominated White House — complete with a male-dominated Cabinet that is working with a male-dominated Republican congressional leadership.
Particularly striking is that attitudes of women toward Trump have little to do with the economy or conventional “women’s issues.” Rather, the antipathy comes from a perception that he’s dangerous and unstable. Republicans who plan to overcome the gender gap by talking about the economy and tax cuts are wasting their breath.
In the Post-ABC poll, there were relatively small gender gaps on immigration, race and the Russia probe. But there were huge gaps on Trump’s mental stability (39 percent of women think him stable vs. 57 percent of men) and whether Trump can be trusted with nukes (only 30 percent of women think so, compared with 46 percent of men). Forty-two percent of women are very concerned Trump will launch an unjustified nuclear attack (68 percent do not trust Trump with them ), compared with just 22 percent of men.
