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Political feminism — the organized push to elect women to high office as a matter of ideological priority — is showing serious signs of collapse, and the cracks are appearing from within the Democrat Party itself.
Consider what is happening in Maine. Two-term Governor Janet Mills is one of the most credentialed Democrat women in the country — the first female district attorney in New England, the only woman ever to serve as both attorney general and governor of her state. She won her last election by thirteen points, famously stood up to President Trump at a White House governors’ meeting, and had the full backing of EMILYs List, the flagship organization for feminist candidates, in her Senate run against Republican Susan Collins.
Her opponent was Graham Platner — an oyster farmer and political newcomer with a Nazi-linked tattoo and Reddit posts unsympathetic to women. EMILYs List called his comments on sexual assault victims disqualifying. Bernie Sanders endorsed him anyway. Platner led Mills by thirty-three points, had already shifted his ads to target his November opponent, and Mills ultimately suspended her campaign in late April citing lack of financial resources.
The progressive wing of the Democrat Party is pushing feminism aside, and feminist candidates are losing to men the left would have disqualified entirely just a few years ago.
Meanwhile Virginia’s new Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger has seen her approval rating sink below fifty percent just months into her term, making her historically the most unpopular new governor in recent Virginia history. And Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions are being complicated by his wife Jennifer, who insists on being called First Partner and recently accused evangelical Christians of pulling the country backward. Newsom is currently trailing Kamala Harris — who lost — in early 2028 polling.
Here at home, Phyllis Schlafly warned fifty years ago that the Equal Rights Amendment would lead to court-ordered taxpayer-funded abortions. Feminists dismissed her. In April, a Pennsylvania court ordered exactly that, using precisely the logic Phyllis predicted, based on that state’s ERA. The U.S. Supreme Court cannot touch it.
Phyllis was right then. The record proves it now. Political feminism may finally be on its last leg.
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