Fox guest dismisses suburban women who care about separating families at the border, gun violence, and income inequality: “It's a lack of education” 

From the March 27 edition of Fox News' The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino:

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ALLIE BETH STUCKEY (BLAZETV): This has actually been something that I've watched happen for a long time as somebody who fits in this demographic, an evangelical white woman who lives in the suburbs. I've seen kind of social justice, intersectionality, and identity politics really being preached from what we considered were theologically conservative pulpits.

And I've also watched very popular evangelical influencers on social media who I know have millions of evangelical women following them speak up a little bit more about progressive causes and progressivism in general.

And so what we've seen happen is that women who maybe previously voted Republican solely because of the abortion issue, they've kind of expanded the definition of pro-life to mean, OK, that means more liberal border policies, that means gun control, that might even mean wealth redistribution. And so they no longer feel guilty about voting Democrat because they have said, well, this is what it means to be pro-life as well. It's very unfortunate.

It's a lack of education, I think, on these women's part.

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DANA PERINO (HOST): I do know just from talking to some folks that especially the family separation issue that got a lot of attention, of course, last Fall, that also struck a cord with a lot of Christian followers. And I wonder if you've heard more about that and if you think that the Trump campaign and Republicans in general can figure out a way to get these women to vote for them again.

STUCKEY: Yeah, as it should, of course what went on at the border should stir in all of our hearts, especially for Christians who are called to care for the least of these. But unfortunately I do think it's a lack of information for people to say, OK, this means that I have to vote Democrat from now on. Because number one, there are particular reasons why children were being unfortunately separated from the people that are accompanying them. Not only their parents, there's a lot going on at the border rather than the whole 'kids in cages' rhetoric that we hear a lot of times from the left.

And of course we also know this was happening under Barack Obama. So to say, OK, Democrats are fully compassionate, Republicans are not, it also goes to show that a lot of women don't know about conservativism. That the free market, and individual responsibility, and giving charity on your own behalf rather than asking the government to do it for you is actually a form of compassion. So I think that Republicans, conservatives, the Trump campaign, whoever, needs to do a better job of showing that conservative values are empathetic values. Conservative values are compassionate values, because it's the value of the individual, not the value of the government doing good for you.

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