The Election Story Nobody Is Talking About
Editor's Note
Building a coalitional force is one of the keys to winning a political war. Peachy Keenan, the author of Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War, suggests that Trump’s gains among important female demographics — driven directly by the destructive Left’s attacks on American families and their way of life — could point the way forward to victory.
Last year, I published a book that diagnosed a major problem in society, and offered a solution. The problem is growing numbers of young women choosing to forgo or delay marriage and motherhood, in favor of “living their best lives” as atomized career girls.
My advice to these women was that they were making a catastrophic error and choosing a life path that would almost certainly result in short-term pleasure followed by long-term regret. I advised them to choose to lean in to being “extremely domestic,” and become “domestic extremists.”
Despite my efforts, I kept reading story after story about the yawning political gap growing between young men and young women. I wrote some of these stories. The facts are startling: young men have shifted to the right moderately while young women have shifted to the left dramatically. A 30-point gender gap, or more! Historically high, unbridgeable! Kamala Harris and her brat army were on the march. They were going to steamroll right over Trump to get their abortions, and there wasn’t a damn thing the right-wing bros could do about it.
Welp. Now that it’s over, we can see the real story: yes, Kamala won women, but only by 7 points: 53 to 46! Old Joe Biden did much better than she did in 2020, with 55 percent of women vs. 43 percent who chose Trump.
Among white women specifically, Trump won 53 percent to Kamala’s 45 percent.
But the young women had another surprise for us. With the brat vibes and the constant fear mongering about abortion and their “freedom” to kill their unborn babies being stripped away, most people expected Harris to dominate among female voters aged 18 to 29. Instead, Trump improved substantially on the 33 percent of this demographic he won in 2020. They moved right seven points, and he ended up winning 40% of these young women. Yes, that means Harris won 56 percent, but her 16-point margin is tiny compared to the gap forecasted in months of media stories about the gender gap. “Young women said they’ll vote for Harris over Trump by a 33-point margin.”
But these women had a surprise in store for us. Donald Trump broke through their brainwashing and closed the gap bigly. “Young Gen Z women, widely considered Harris’ safest demographic, turned their backs on the Democrats in droves to support Donald Trump,” reports the Daily Mail. “The youngest of them, aged 18 to 24, fled Harris in greater numbers with Trump gaining 11 points on his contest with Joe Biden.”
What a time to be alive! I can’t confirm that my book, Domestic Extremist, had anything to do with the mass red-pilling of young women, but regardless this is a tremendous political shift.
And it’s not just the young women of America who roared on election night. Of all age groups, Gen X voted for Trump at the highest rates. These are me and my friends! These are the mothers of America; the ones who had to watch their teenagers’ graduation ceremonies canceled and college start on Zoom. Forced to watch our kids play outside wearing masks. Forced to vax our kids. Forced to try to keep them from going crazy for two years while schools were shut. Forced to try to afford $7 milk and $8 eggs. Forced to cut back on Christmas, vacations, and going out to dinner, even to “inexpensive” family restaurants. Forced to say nothing when we watched our children called “irredeemably racist” in school because of the color they were born.
And then the final insult: forced to watch our girls lose races and games to boys in skirts. Forced to hear the sobs of girls who had to undress in front of boys in their private locker rooms and girls’ bathrooms. An old college friend living in a deep-blue city, a longtime liberal feminist, texted me the morning of the election, “If you’d told me four years ago, I would be voting for Trump today I wouldn’t have believed you.” As a mother of three boys, she had seen with her own eyes what they had done to childhood in America. The trans insanity, the DEI indoctrination, the gender mutilations of kids—the moms looked at all that and said “hell no!” at the polls.
Gen Z and Gen X women in every state have had quite enough of the Democrat’s reign of terror and voted for one thing: sanity. The men who voted for Trump are getting a lot of the credit for his win, but make no mistake: the ladies came through for him in a huge way.
The gender gap may not be completely closed, but this election built a big, beautiful bridge all the way over it.