Former first lady Michelle Obama said at a recent event that the US isn’t ready for a woman president, pointing to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ unsuccessful bid for the White House last year.
Just barely, though, and against what was at the time the worst qualified opponent in history (beat only by Trump himself in 2020 and 2024). Hillary was an awful candidate in her own right and the fact that she barely eeked out a popular vote win against Trump shows that.
I genuinely don’t believe that a good, likeable, popular woman candidate who was free to campaign without the interference of the (mostly men) party’s Old Guard would have no problem winning. We’ve got women in high offices in pretty much every other level of government. Just stop pushing out the worst, rich, pro-establishment candidates to the “progressive party” and demand a vote just because of their sex.
Hillary won by 3 million votes, but that’s not enough for a Democrat to be appointed the presidency by the EC. A Republican can win by 3 million (Trump 47) or lose by 3 million (Trump 45) and be appointed, but a Democrat has to win by 8 million to be appointed (Biden). Maybe not that much, but +3M apparently isn’t enough.
It’s an absurd system that favours the right and that’s why it exists. See also gerrymandering. They cannot win openly and they know it, and they aren’t even hiding it.
Just barely, though, and against what was at the time the worst qualified opponent in history (beat only by Trump himself in 2020 and 2024). Hillary was an awful candidate in her own right and the fact that she barely eeked out a popular vote win against Trump shows that.
I genuinely don’t believe that a good, likeable, popular woman candidate who was free to campaign without the interference of the (mostly men) party’s Old Guard would have no problem winning. We’ve got women in high offices in pretty much every other level of government. Just stop pushing out the worst, rich, pro-establishment candidates to the “progressive party” and demand a vote just because of their sex.
/rant
Hillary won by 3 million votes, but that’s not enough for a Democrat to be appointed the presidency by the EC. A Republican can win by 3 million (Trump 47) or lose by 3 million (Trump 45) and be appointed, but a Democrat has to win by 8 million to be appointed (Biden). Maybe not that much, but +3M apparently isn’t enough.
It’s an absurd system that favours the right and that’s why it exists. See also gerrymandering. They cannot win openly and they know it, and they aren’t even hiding it.