She didn’t think she could talk to other women about Trump without combusting??? Really??? Interesting word choice.
So she is saying, that in spite of her wanting us to think she is a dedicated professional, that she had doubts of her ability to engage discussion of a person such as Trump, without going into an emotional meltdown????
We all know this is a thinly veiled hit piece. None of us are naive and better writers than this author has tried to deceive.
By warning people that contrary opinions are emotionally fraught and potentially going to trigger emotional insanity, liberals are priming people to over-react to contrary opinions in addition to poisoning the well, making their believers be conditioned against giving any weight to anything an unbeliever (conservative) says.
Liberals are also training people to act out the behavior of the mentally ill. That if someone disagrees it MUST be racism/sexism/bias, that if they say something you don’t like, assume ill intent.
The Coddling of the American Mind
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/