Younger men threw their support behind Donald Trump in 2024 after favoring Biden in 2020
The United States is still not ready for a female president after more than a century of unsuccessful campaigns for the White House, according to former First Lady Michelle Obama.
“As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” Obama said earlier this month in a live conversation with actor Tracee Ellis Ross that was published Friday.
“That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying,” she said. “You’re not ready for a woman. You are not. So don’t waste my time.”
Having a pick me conservative female candidate reinforces all their values while co-opting more women through representation. In this respect having a female President could be way worse, think Erica Kirk.
I agree with your point and I think the reason it hasn’t happen has a lot to do with the extreme sexism the US has.
Yes, that is the fundamental flaw of identity politics.
Yes, but in other countries they still get elected despite the sexism. I find it hard to believe that Americans hate women more than the people in struggling third world democracies do.
You make some really good points. I had to look it up and apparently it is not uncommon to have a country that has never had a woman as its top leader.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-countries-never-had-female-leader-1906993
Also, if you add up all the years women have actually been a leader it is just a token amount.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/not-just-the-us-the-countries-that-have-never-been-led-by-a-woman/0bidx04kt
So clearly this is not just a US thing. Why women are so grossly underrepresented in politics appears to be pretty universal.