Thinking about the election just conducted, and explaining the pro-Trump outcome, has become a mini-industry. One interesting rumination on this topic is an article in The Free Press which argues the Dims picked the wrong women’s issue to emphasize, while the GOP picked a women’s issue with real political “legs.”
This time around, abortion was the wrong issue for the Dims. The only people realistically angry about abortion were women in red states who had no feasible way to travel to a blue state for an abortion, should they need one. This was not a huge group.
The GOP picked instead the issue of biological men claiming to be women in women’s sports, locker rooms, and restrooms. And the obvious craziness of providing sex change operations for convicted male felons who claim to be women. These issues had relevance in all 50 states, and with women and men everywhere.
