You begin to wonder at what depth of depravity our nation has to sink before someone rescues us from the miry pit. 3 Schools that fail to adequately abide by the Government’s new relationships and sex education curriculum will be judged as no better than ‘requires improvement’. Meanwhile Ofsted are ready to mark down schools that don’t teach about LGBT relationships. 1 And the Daily Telegraph reports that police forces are not interested in applications from anyone who believes that individuals cannot change their sex. Less than 50 years after humans landed on the moon, we hear that Thames Valley Police have partnered with an organisation that promotes a myriad of ‘gender’ identities including – wait for it – lunagender! defines each of 147 genders alongside pictures of their separate flags. Trump has never worked a day in government and doesn’t understand the first thing about policy, but she’s the unqualified one? It’s as though the 2004 Bush campaign, instead of “swift boating” John Kerry to convince voters he was no war hero, instead said, “Sure, John Kerry is a war hero, but bravery and service are stupid and military experience should disqualify you from the presidency.” You can imagine how well that would have gone over.In a jaw-dropping demonstration of sheer lunacy, the latest example of institutional pandering to our politically-correct culture comes from the police. And we’re talking about someone who was a senator and secretary of state, whatever else you might think of her. They’ll also laugh at the idea that being a woman confers some kind of unfair advantage, in politics or anywhere else. When he says she’s not qualified, every woman who’s ever held a job will be reminded of how she had to work twice as hard to be taken seriously as her male colleagues. Instead of arguing that a Clinton presidency would actually be bad for women, he’s actually using sexist tropes against her, tropes that women voters find all too familiar. There has been a significant gender gap in recent presidential elections, but this election could see the widest one in history, particularly if Democrats can succeed in turning out single women, one of the groups they perform best with.īut if Trump is trying to undermine Clinton’s ability to use her gender to her advantage, he’s going about it in exactly the wrong way.
She’s viewed as strong and competent, and since her daughter is grown, no one is asking why she isn’t at home taking care of her family (a question female candidates with children get, but male candidates never do). And Clinton isn’t hamstrung by many of the unfair questions that many female candidates have to endure. Yet her election as the first woman president would be truly historic, and the closer we get to the election, the more salient that fact may become to women voters (and many men as well).
She enters the general election with plenty of weaknesses, particularly since she’s been embroiled in an endless string of controversies over her quarter-century as a national figure.
If this is what Trump is trying to do, it starts from an accurate premise: Clinton’s gender may indeed be one of her greatest strengths.
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