A mammoth-sized book of lamentations is being written by the left in America now. Of course, it is normal for the losing political party to conduct a postmortem. Still, it appears that the Democrats keep going to the same well over and over to explain their losses: It’s all those horrible white women who keep showing up as the skunk at their well-planned garden parties. They’re to blame. Yes, this is a recurring theme, an old trope, if you will.
We Told You So
Here’s a quote from the premier American fashion magazine, Vogue:
“As sure as black women have proven themselves to be the often-underappreciated backbone of the Democratic party [sic], white women voters are establishing themselves as maddeningly, confusingly . . . unsisterly.”
But here’s the catch: This comment isn’t new. Liberty Nation News first featured the quote back in 2018. Still licking their wounds from the 2016 loss to Trump, the left finally turned on their beloved “sisters.” Fast-forward to November 5, 2024, and one can easily see it wasn’t just white women who handed President Donald Trump a supersized victory. It came from several – if not all – sectors of the electorate. Here are a few facts plucked out of the exit poll results by Edison Research/NEP via Statista:
Trump Demographic Gains from 2020
Hispanic voters – plus 13%
Hispanic men – plus 18%
Hispanic women – plus 7%
Black men – plus 1%*
Black women – minus 2%*
White women – minus 3%
All women – plus 2%
Voters 18 to 29 – plus 6%
If anyone should carry the blame for a Trump victory, it should be Hispanic/Latin voters, but pointing the finger at a minority group is a political no-no for progressives. It’s much easier to turn their sights on an old, familiar demographic – white women. Unfortunately, the statistics don’t illustrate this bias, yet the narrative persists.
An opinion article by LZ Granderson published in the Los Angeles Times is a typical example, accusing Caucasian women as the guilty party that propelled President Trump to victory: “The majority of white women in this country want a male president – preferably white.” Then there’s MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who couldn’t resist adding her voice to this amen chorus: “Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White women voters did not.” One of her co-hosts on The View, Sunny Hostin, went a step further:
“Black women tried to save this country again, last night… what we do not have is white women, who voted about 52 percent for Donald Trump — uneducated white women is my understanding.”
Take note of that little dig there – female Trump voters are not only hopelessly white, but they also aren’t very bright. Perhaps this was behind the political ad that suggested women should hide their vote for Kamala Harris from their husbands. This, of course, was yet another dig, this time aimed at white men, conjuring visions of the drunken, low-class guy in a wife-beater undershirt just angling for a reason to give the missus a shiner or two.
What is supremely wrong with this point of view is the statistics: The raw data cannot be ignored. Then again, progressives have a penchant for creating a narrative – and darn well sticking to it whether or not the facts bear them out. So the question becomes, why do these people persist in lying to themselves?
Psychology Today provides a few answers: “A common form of deception is lying, which refers to making a false statement deliberately and with the intent to mislead the listener.” It points out that people can lie for “benevolent reasons” but also for “malicious” motivations. However, the primary reason on the list is to avoid shame – and this just might hit the nail on the head. As The Atlantic pointed out, “The stale politics of identity that tries to reduce even the glaringly inconvenient fact of Trump’s multiracial alliance to ‘white women’ stands in the way of overcoming the real democratic crisis.”
If there’s one takeaway from Tuesday night’s beat down of Kamala Harris, it should be that the American people are not as stupid as elites make them out to be. Right behind that is the recognition that it was a powerful, multiracial coalition – spanning both gender and class – that put President Donald J. Trump back in office. Blaming white women as “unsisterly” is merely another deception to soothe their broken dreams. Americans have spoken. Now, it’s time for the losing party to listen.
*Other exit polls show more significant gains in this category.
