text: Forget about the Catholic component. It's very clear that race is as important an issue in this election as gender. Whites by and large are going for Trump and non-whites are for Clinton. Men by and large and going for Trump and women for Clinton. Clearly, we've reached a moment in our history where we're retreating into our tribal bases. That's a very sad commentary on the state of a nation that was founded on the idea of disparate peoples coming together. That whole sense seems to be totally gone. 
  
  Republicans who defend Donald Trump talk a lot about "taking their country back." Implicit in that statement is taking it back from blacks, women (who've gotten too uppity), gays, Muslims, and immigrants - all the way back to a time when straight white men ruled the world and everyone else had to cow-tow to them. Well those days, thankfully, are never coming back.
  
  This is the election in which empowered femininity will vanquish toxic masculinity and the U.S.A. will be much better for it.