Gloria Steinem: If Clinton doesn’t win it’s because majority didn’t vote

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem said if Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton loses the general election, it’s not because she doesn’t represent the needs of a majority of Americans.

{mosads}“What’s important about [Clinton] is not only that she’s walked around all her life experiencing life as a female human being, but also that she represents the needs and issues of a majority of women and men,” Steinem told Time. “If she loses, it will mean that the majority either did not vote, or is prevented from voting.”

Steinem also said her past comment on “Real Time With Bill Maher” that young women support Bernie Sanders to get closer his male supporters was taken out of context.

“I didn’t understand that he had taken it a different way, otherwise I would have stopped him,” she said. “I was just talking about how angry young women were that they were graduating in debt. But the second part of the sentence got cut out.”

Steinem said that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump makes her “as shocked and angry as you can imagine.” And she said his rise to the top of the large GOP field was fueled by a backlash to social change.

“If we hadn’t had a frontlash, we wouldn’t have a backlash,” she said. “The force of the backlash is in some ways a tribute to the success of the frontlash. … That doesn’t mean the backlash will win.”

Trump supporters are overwhelmingly white and male, Steinem said, and “resentful because they feel privilege has been taken away from them.”