By Peachy Keenan
The trends are clear: young men are veering right; young women are veering left in dramatic numbers. All through the election, women favored Kamala by large percentages, and men did likewise for Trump. This trend is all but certain to continue. In fact, the gap is likely to widen into an unbridgeable canyon.
But what if I told you that the political gender gap in America was not strictly about gender? Well, for women, I think it is. Women have been conditioned to fear and distrust men, and many have had bad experiences with men in their own lives that they project onto any man who wants to "be in charge." A female leader is emotionally more comforting, less scary. They're seeking rule by Mother Hen, not by rooster.
But what about young men? Is it actually the case that young men will only vote for men? Or is there something else at work here?
The latest talking point on the culture war, and the election, is that men, especially America's errant chads and bros, want no part of a Kamala Harris presidency. But can you blame them? They are, as Michelle Obama scolded in her one Harris campaign appearance, the problem. They don't care about abortion as much as women do. They're rapists, and some, presumably, are good people. But only if they vote for Kamala. Voting for Kamala Harris is the only way to show the world you are not a woman-hating Nazi fascist.
Can anyone say "deplorable"? We've seen all this before... | 
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