In the article, Absorbing the Impossible, Maureen Dowd, a feminist and a slight liberal lean, suggests that Donald Trump won the President-elect because of the hidden Trump supporters and the misunderstood lack of Clinton supporters throughout the nation. Dowd develops her ideas further by addressing how Trump won for a combination of reasons including but not limited to: the annoyance of current Democratic government (“too much regulation, too much government”) strong dislike of opposing candidate (“one of the most flawed candidates in history”), and the possibility of another ‘Clinton’ in the White House (“unable to condone the Clintons’ miasma of financial and ethical cheesiness”). Using these examples, Dowd illuminates how Trump was able
