While men can constantly sort avatars in their search for the ideal candidate, women only get a brief window to see themselves in an imperfect fit. That’s why I pay attention to Haley even though we share nothing values-wise. The pull of a candidate you can project yourself onto is strong. That frustration, though, has led to revelation. In my heart, I believe she went to bed last night determined to look up some self-care serums, but ended up deciding the 2 a.m. He earned that.” Her tone was the same one I use when I tell my kids they made these cupcakes-they worked so hard! Haley’s vibe on that stage was one I think most women recognize: This is fine, I’ll do this speech, but my mind is already on to-dos for tomorrow, and the rest of 2024, and my five-year plan. I loved when she said, in a brilliantly precise chord of bless his heart, “I wanna congratulate Donald Trump on his victory tonight…. I admired the way she made her concession sound like a victory speech. I appreciate that she’s a mom, and I can feel in my jaw the way she held her face patiently last night as her own supporters interrupted her. But I feel her just-get-it-done attitude. If I ever opened with that, my friends would think I had a concussion. Not when she shows up somewhere and says that “God is so good”, as she did last night after the race was called in Trump’s favor. But with Haley, I sometimes glimpse the feeling men have had for two hundred years: I relate to her.
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