President-elect Donald Trump's victory has left Democrats wondering how demographic groups once considered dependable allies of the left ended up bolstering the Republican nominee for President.
Despite liberals’ desperate efforts to characterize Trump as a racist and misogynist, Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz, D-Minn., lost ground among key constituencies, including Latinos, Black Americans, and Jewish voters.
Most notably, repeated attempts by Harris and her surrogates to pigeonhole women as a sub-group whose sole concern is abortion failed to materialize into meaningful electoral gains among American females.
In fact, exit polls confirm Trump increased his support with females since his 2020 election, with the president-elect winning white women voters by eight points nationally.
Over the last several months, those on the left sought to treat women as a monolithic constituency, with Hollywood elites like Julia Roberts advising wives to hide their voting preferences from their husbands, whose masculinity and traditional societal roles are still revered by many Americans.
The party of free expression was suddenly calling for millions of women to exercise their right to vote in silence.
Yet, in fairness, women weren't concealing their choice for president from the men in their lives. They were hiding from the sanctimonious moralizing expressed by liberal pollsters, the media, and their progressive friends whose privilege allows them the latitude to prioritize what Rob Henderson termed as "Luxury Beliefs."
The reelection of Donald Trump challenges the preexisting feminist order, with the newly elected president making history shortly after winning by announcing he would be appointing Susie Wiles as his White House Chief of Staff, the first female to serve in that role.
Today's feminists rejected the phony and condescending platitudes offered by the Harris/Walz ticket. It turns out that trotting out celebrity endorsements like Lizzo and Cardi B doesn't solve the crises of criminality and overcrowded classrooms that have landed in our cities and towns as a result of the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies.
Nor do today’s women take kindly to being disparaged and demonized by the Democratic Party nominee’s campaign surrogates like Mark Cuban, who insinuated that female Trump supporters are "weak and dumb."
This election marks the start of women seeing through the Democratic Party's campaign of condescension and dismissiveness.
Socially liberal but still sensible, suburban women repudiated policies that endangered our nation's youth and began embracing a social conservatism emphasizing culturally sane and common-sense solutions to contemporary problems.
Female voters trend towards tolerance and acceptance but can tell the difference when openness for an unconventional lifestyle is manipulated by ideologues trying to institutionalize a radical gender agenda or extorted by left-wingers seeking to upend America's citadels of education into centers of social activism.
While it's true that children lost crucial instructional time due to school shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, the restrictions did present parents with a glimpse into what America's youth were learning during academic hours.
Over the last decade, ideologically charged books with little literary value began replacing American classics while trendy progressive buzzwords like "social-emotional learning" started to unfold and supplant critical learning lessons that in years past centered on reading, writing, and arithmetic.
President-elect Trump's support among women wasn't confined to moms growing weary of the left-leaning drift pervading their neighborhoods.
Trump was also buoyed by women between the ages of 18 to 29.
Like their seasoned female sisters, even younger women want safe streets, a strong economy, and a country free of mass illegal migration.
Today’s Democrats marinate in political spaces guided by identity politics in which all Americans, women included, are reduced to an ideological order that comports with a progressive worldview.
President Trump improved on his 2020 numbers with women because America's political and cultural moment demands a leader who speaks with conviction and authenticity about the dangers facing our nation.
Liberals have spent years minimizing the challenges facing American voters.
Kamala Harris' hollow and shallow campaign failed when confronted by the grit and intellectual honesty possessed by America's female electorate, who this year repaid Democrats disrespect by boosting the Republican ticket.
Irit Tratt is a writer and served as Co-Chair of the Trump47 Women’s Leadership Coalition.
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