…but the only politicians Trump has defeated have been women.
Yes, MAGA supports Trump (still), but the issue of Trump has less to do with embracing xenophobia and authoritarianism (polls and protests show we haven’t), and more to do with rejecting women as Presidents.
We aren’t supposed to say that after Obama proved we could elect a black man (which I remember some pundits saying proved we were “post-racial.”). But Obama was a man.
The nation rejected Hillary Clinton in favor of Trump, and everyone blamed Clinton. That seemed fair; then Harris lost, and everyone blamed Biden. But maybe we should blame the electorate for wanting the incompetent boob con man convicted felon, over the woman. I would say “black woman,” but race is not what Hillary and Kamala have in common.
Sometimes electoral outcomes show the luck in your opponent. Joe Biden was not Bill Clinton or Barack Obama on the campaign trail (he was certainly better in office than either), but he beat Trump handily. Everybody knew Trump bragged he could “grab ‘em by the pussy!”, but Hillary couldn’t be president because she….
And if Biden had declined to run again, would Kamala have won the nomination and the election? I don’t think Biden thought so, though he could never admit to the misogyny of the voters.
But there’s better evidence that’s what it was, than that Americans wanted to take Nazism for a trial run.
They do seem to think a complete boob is still better than a president with boobs. I hate to be so crude, but I’m pretty sure that’s the sticking point. Still.
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