Many Democrats stay comically befuddled over how they misplaced two of the previous three presidential elections to Donald Trump. As one may anticipate from these obsessive about gender and id politics, they now interact in projection, chalking up the defeats to a sexist and misogynist citizens.
“Will the U.S. ever be prepared for a feminine president?” trumpeted a latest New York Occasions headline. The story quotes Invoice Clinton, whose spouse, Hillary, misplaced the 2016 election to Trump.
“Ideologically, the people who find themselves most definitely to be in opposition to girls are most definitely to be conservative,” he mentioned.
Republicans ought to rejoice at this line of considering as a result of it highlights the extent of denial effervescent up in progressive political corners. Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t lose as a result of voters have been uncomfortable along with her ethnicity or gender. She misplaced as a result of she was a foul candidate pressured to defend an unpopular administration that had unleashed 9% inflation, $5 a gallon gasoline and different indignities upon the American public.
Harris ran a stealth marketing campaign, avoiding specifics and troublesome interviews. She tried to cross herself off as a reasonable, however her document courting again to her time in California mirrored her embrace of the far left. Most of the concepts well-liked along with her followers — defund the police, intercourse adjustments for pre-teens, a large growth of the welfare state — are anathema to broad swaths of voters, whether or not they’re espoused by a male or a feminine.
Witness how rapidly Democratic energy brokers kneecapped socialist Bernie Sanders — a person — to pave the best way for each Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton for concern the Vermont senator’s views can be poisonous in a nationwide election.
As for Hillary Clinton, Gallup polling revealed she — together with Trump — was one of many “least appreciated” main presidential candidates in historical past. She dragged round numerous controversies courting again to her time as first woman within the Nineteen Nineties, when she pushed to nationalize well being care. Voter distaste for her candidacy was grounded in way over misogyny.
Sure, there are vestiges of racism and sexism that also pollute the nationwide discourse.
However girls have made super strides, now holding 24 Senate seats and 127 Home seats. Clearly voters don’t have any qualms about casting ballots for ladies. Voters are clearly greater than prepared to help girls candidates.
Will America elect a feminine president? It was solely a decade in the past {that a} comparable query was thrown about in regard to Barack Obama, who subsequently gained two nationwide elections.
Sure, People will vote for a girl on the prime of the ticket. However when that occurs, the candidate’s marketing campaign methods and insurance policies would be the figuring out issue, not the make-up of her chromosomes.
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