Women Voting in Their 'Self-Interest' Got Us Trump

Michelle Williams did something pretty courageous Sunday night. The pregnant actress stood in front of live TV cameras and used her Golden Globes acceptance speech for her performance in Fosse/Verdon to explain how having an abortion helped her decide when and with whom to have children and urged women to use their voting power to help reshape our government. It came just days after 207 Republican members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in a case it will hear this year.

The speech was powerful and almost perfect, but fell short in telling women to vote in their own, personal self-interest. Many white women have been doing just that, and it's why anti-abortion Donald Trump is president, and arguably why Williams was even moved to talk about her own abortion in the first place.