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None of these women will survive a campaign against Donald Trump supercharged by four years of unjustified torment by the Democrats themselves:
The sad death of the Femocrats
Democratic voters are getting sick of watching so-called empowered women explain away their failures as bigotry
Amber Athey
Elite women Democrats have faced a brutal reckoning over the past five years. It seemed, as Barack Obama might have put it, that the arc of history was bending in their direction. Half the electorate are female, and feminist identity politics seemed the natural destination for America’s progressive party. It hasn’t worked out that way.
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton signaled the beginning of the end for the Pantsuit Nation™. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the DC media bubble crowned her successor to Barack Obama’s Democratic party and a shoo-in for the presidency. The American electorate disagreed.
While the party machine may not have learned this lesson from 2016, Democratic voters did. It is no longer enough to be a woman — you also have to be good enough to win.
Female voters in particular have become disillusioned by the novelty of the first female president, according to reporting in the New York Times. The importance of shattering of the ‘glass ceiling’ has been overshadowed by fears that President Donald Trump will coast into reelection, causing many self-avowed feminists to prefer certain male candidates in the Democratic primary.
If this attitude seems divorced from the party’s embrace of third-wave feminism and identity politics, that’s because it is. Party leaders have tried to simultaneously appeal to a small sect of woke progressives while also respecting the party’s tradition of ‘next in line’ politics. The result is a lineup of female candidates who are either uninspiring, unimpressive, or just unelectable.
The rest of the sad but unavoidable truth here:
https://spectator.us/sad-death-femocrats/
The sad death of the Femocrats
Democratic voters are getting sick of watching so-called empowered women explain away their failures as bigotry
Amber Athey
Elite women Democrats have faced a brutal reckoning over the past five years. It seemed, as Barack Obama might have put it, that the arc of history was bending in their direction. Half the electorate are female, and feminist identity politics seemed the natural destination for America’s progressive party. It hasn’t worked out that way.
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton signaled the beginning of the end for the Pantsuit Nation™. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the DC media bubble crowned her successor to Barack Obama’s Democratic party and a shoo-in for the presidency. The American electorate disagreed.
While the party machine may not have learned this lesson from 2016, Democratic voters did. It is no longer enough to be a woman — you also have to be good enough to win.
Female voters in particular have become disillusioned by the novelty of the first female president, according to reporting in the New York Times. The importance of shattering of the ‘glass ceiling’ has been overshadowed by fears that President Donald Trump will coast into reelection, causing many self-avowed feminists to prefer certain male candidates in the Democratic primary.
If this attitude seems divorced from the party’s embrace of third-wave feminism and identity politics, that’s because it is. Party leaders have tried to simultaneously appeal to a small sect of woke progressives while also respecting the party’s tradition of ‘next in line’ politics. The result is a lineup of female candidates who are either uninspiring, unimpressive, or just unelectable.
The rest of the sad but unavoidable truth here:
https://spectator.us/sad-death-femocrats/
