The Trump campaign’s most successful ad, also among women, was the one that said Kamala Harris would fund gender transition surgeries for the prison population with public money. This much-celebrated hoax should have been a wake-up call to what could happen and how broad sectors’ rejection of certain identity politics was being exploited by the MAGA movement, but Harris refused to deny the problem. specific. In retrospect, we all see Democrats’ inability to understand Trump’s political appeal except in terms that confirm their own beliefs that Republican voters are racist, sexist, stupid, or downright misinformed and choosing against their interests .
One of the beliefs that collapsed on November 5 was that there would be a surge of female votes that would tip the scales in favor of the vice president. This wave would not only include black women, young college students or urban dwellers with high purchasing power: conservatives or independents would also line up with the ballot in hand and support Harris to protect the right to vote. abortion, supporting sexual freedom and having the first wife. president of the United States. A strong tsunami of female rage would send Trump, the ultimate misogynist abuser, to the dump.
