https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/04/death...
Also, last I checked women had plenty of voice in the last 40 years... beside being the majority of the voters (and thus always pandered to by default), US have no-fault divorce (something that usually only women want, most no-fault divorce are initiated by women), abortion is legal (Brazil for example where I live, abortion is still mostly illegal), Title IX exists, VAWA exists, more women than men finish college, female labour participation is higher than male, and so on...
Or to say it another way, just because those things have happened, doesn't mean anything against what the parent poster wrote
The result is that they see a candidate who promises isolationist policies (Keep our manufacturing jobs here, as they've seen them go to China and Mexico for decades) as a more viable candidate than one who continues to drive for more globalization.
In passing, I'd like to note that my father actually preferred Cruz, which may match your description slightly better, while my mother preferred Trump largely for the reasons I listed above.
I'm not a Trump supporter or potential voter, but we fool ourselves when we invoke this caricature.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-...
I think that describes like... 4% of the population, depending on your definition of "slightly".
No he doesn't. He doesn't appeal to or represent poor whites, those vote D. He also doesn't appeal to or represent minorities, immigrants, or women. Those also vote D. He appeals to and represents white men that have a household income slightly higher than the median. Those people have been nothing but listened to for the last 140 years.