In Case You Missed It: The New York Times recently talked with about a dozen women from various parts of the country about why they voted for Trump and two were from Macomb County – Sterling Heights.
The story served as a contrast to the large crowd of women planning to protest Trump’s inauguration in a Washington demonstration on Saturday. While the president-elect was expected to fare poorly in the election with white women, he captured 53 percent of that voting bloc.
One of the Sterling Heights women, Victoria Czapski, said she appreciated Trump’s push to rid the country of PC thinking and to crack down on immigration. A Macomb GOP activist for two decades, Czapski said that immigrants seeking to enter the U.S. should go through intense background checks to determine whether they are terrorists. An education worker, Czapski said those who immigrate should be required to learn English.
“This is a Christian country,” she told the Times “… He (Trump) says what everyone’s thinking and is afraid to say. That doesn’t make anyone bigoted.”
Czapski, 45, also indicated that she is not opposed to federal assistance for inner cities in an effort to free people from dependence on welfare benefits.
“That amount of money is so low that they have no incentive to work. Why don’t you allow them to gradually earn more money?” said Czapski, who is such a fan of the incoming president that she wears a Trump bracelet.
The other Sterling Heights representative in the NYT story was Robin Mueller, a pre-school teacher. She said she made a last-minute decision to vote for Trump after her 8-year-old convinced her to attend a campaign rally featuring the real estate mogul. She liked Trump’s “calming presence,” which she said contrasted with his reputation as a “big mouth.”
An Obama voter in 2012, Mueller, 42, said she was turned off by Hillary Clinton’s switch in favor of late-term abortions and gay marriage – Mueller said she favors same-sex marriage but she believes Clinton flip-flopped in recent years for political expediency.
“The first time she ran against Obama, I was all on board for Hillary Clinton. I really wanted to have a female president. I think that’s important. But I’m not sure that’s her.”
