OK, first of all, Hilary Clinton won the popular vote. So I don't buy this idea that the US isn't ready for a female president.
Second of all, it's really patronising to suggest that female voters were somehow gullible and deluded or that they don't know what's good for them. Plenty of women out there don't agree with abortion and believe they would never have one themselves, and don't want their kids to be taught gender ideology in schools. If that's where you stand then you'd be pretty pleased with some of the things Trump has done. If you're a female athlete like Riley Gaines who is politically right wing, you'd be bloody delighted.
As for Trump's economic policies, yes the markets have gone a bit nuts recently in response to the tariffs, but this is Trump's second term, and there were certainly voters who were better off economically under the last Trump administration than they would have been under the Democrats. Why would those people not have wanted to re-elect him?
A major, major failing of the political left everywhere is that "progressives" assume themselves to be so obviously morally superior that only stupid, bigoted people could possibly vote differently. And then when they lose elections, instead of reflecting on their own failure, they appear to believe that the only possible explanation for why they didn't win is that too many voters are too stupid and bigoted and voted the wrong way.
Well, that in itself is stupid and bigoted, in my opinion.
And it's not how you get the less engaged voters out on polling day.
In the lead up to the UK general election I knew I wanted the Tories out, but I didn't particularly want anyone else in either. Because I was so disgusted with the way Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens have consistently doubled down on the gender woo and sold women down the river, that I couldn't bring myself to vote for them. And because regardless of how bad the Tories were and how urgently they needed to be gone, I don't think that people who pretend that a woman can have a penis are competent to run a country. I also knew that Labour were almost certain to win, but in my constituency it was between the Tories and the Lib Dems, and the Lib Dems are even more batshit and misogynistic than Labour. I decided on balance that I would rather the Tory candidate in my constituency won, even if I didn't want him to win badly enough to actually vote for him. So I didn't vote.
I now feel somewhat vindicated in my decision, given that Labour appear to be running the country with about the level of competence you might expect from people who say women can have penises.
I have no trouble understanding why people like me in the US didn't turn out in great enough numbers to vote for Kamala Harris. And the Democrats urgently need to reflect on what that says about their own general lack of appeal. People just aren't buying what they're selling, even when the alternative is Trump.
But they won't reflect. They will just put extra insulation around the doors and windows of their echo chamber and sit comfortably inside, bitching about how stupid and bigoted other people are.