But ever since Donald Trump won the election, Packer has found herself drawn there. During the 2016 election, she supported Hillary Clinton and knocked on doors for her a few times. When Clinton’s local campaign office asked her to work a phone bank on Election Day, she “hesitated to do it,” she says, because she assumed Trump would be easily defeated. “Every day, when Trump issues a new executive order or threat to religious freedom, I’m more appalled and inspired,” she said. “So now that that’s happened, and it’s not a hypothetical, I’ve been incredibly heartened to see that people are taking to the streets.”Many women didn’t need Trump to win in order to become political.

Source: Huffington Post February 16, 2017 10:48 UTC