Never Trump movement
The Anti-Trump movement includes Leftists, feminists, and pro-immigration Democrats. There are also some Republicans who have declared that they will oppose Donald Trump. These Republican opponents include a handful of current and former elected officials, and a few mostly older commentators and academics. As of March, over $63 million has been spent on ads attacking Trump. [1]
The stated reasons and motivations of Republican opponents of Trump vary. A few pro-lifers have claimed that they oppose Trump based in part on his past comments about women, despite how that is a feminist objection and feminists generally support abortion. A "Catholic" letter was publicized against Trump, even though Trump is not anti-Catholic and has even spoken highly of Pope Francis despite the Pope's harsh criticism of Trump's support for building a wall against illegal immigration.
The so-called "pro-life" letter against Trump
A letter signed by merely ten pro-lifers, two of whom were officers of the Susan B. Anthony List, an organization that has been associated with feminism, criticized Trump on the eve of the Iowa caucuses. The letter expressly sided with feminist Megyn Kelly against Trump:[2]
| “ | Moreover, as women, we are disgusted by Mr. Trump’s treatment of individuals, women, in particular. He has impugned the dignity of women, most notably Megyn Kelly, he mocked and bullied Carly Fiorina, and has through the years made disparaging public comments to and about many women. Further, Mr. Trump has profited from the exploitation of women in his Atlantic City casino hotel which boasted of the first strip club casino in the country. | ” |
There is nothing pro-life about the foregoing criticism. Feminists, as a group other than the individuals mentioned above, are generally big supporters of taxpayer-funded abortion.
