Just like anything the left does.....
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/411754-pavlich-the-lefts-identity-politics-fall-apart
As we head into the 2018 midterm elections and eventually the 2020 presidential race, the expectations Democrats have from voters has stayed the same as previous cycles. The left’s assumption is that women and minorities vote for Democrats because it’s in their best interest and major cultural events back it up.
But over the course of the past two weeks, the left’s strategy of identity politics as a way to divide and conquer American voters has not only failed, it’s backfired.
We saw this play out first with the fight to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaughto the Supreme Court. The narrative, created by the left and repeated by allies in the media, quickly became about women. Without distinction, it was declared that all women were on the side of Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.
This was hardly the case and shouldn’t have been surprising since all women don’t think the same way. Hundreds of women who knew Kavanaugh came out publicly in his defense. Scores of women wearing “I Stand With Brett” and “Women For Kavanaugh” T-shirts gathered on Capitol Hill to show their support for his nomination. Thousands tweeted #HimToo as a way to show support for due process and evidence to back accusations.
“The theater turned us off, but it was a kind of a last straw — after years of pussy hats and #MeToo and college kangaroo courts. We don’t buy the larger message about a GOP ‘war on women.’ We know these are crude scare tactics designed to get our votes. But Democrats are making a huge miscalculation,” conservative Stephanie Gutmann wrote in an op-ed for USA Today.
“We are furious at the people purporting to speak for women, furious that what should have been an ordinary parsing of evidence (what little there is after 36 years) was turned into a Kabuki theater campaign ad for the Democratic Party, stressing their trope that the GOP is conducting a so-called war on women,” she wrote.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/411754-pavlich-the-lefts-identity-politics-fall-apart
As we head into the 2018 midterm elections and eventually the 2020 presidential race, the expectations Democrats have from voters has stayed the same as previous cycles. The left’s assumption is that women and minorities vote for Democrats because it’s in their best interest and major cultural events back it up.
But over the course of the past two weeks, the left’s strategy of identity politics as a way to divide and conquer American voters has not only failed, it’s backfired.
We saw this play out first with the fight to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaughto the Supreme Court. The narrative, created by the left and repeated by allies in the media, quickly became about women. Without distinction, it was declared that all women were on the side of Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.
This was hardly the case and shouldn’t have been surprising since all women don’t think the same way. Hundreds of women who knew Kavanaugh came out publicly in his defense. Scores of women wearing “I Stand With Brett” and “Women For Kavanaugh” T-shirts gathered on Capitol Hill to show their support for his nomination. Thousands tweeted #HimToo as a way to show support for due process and evidence to back accusations.
“The theater turned us off, but it was a kind of a last straw — after years of pussy hats and #MeToo and college kangaroo courts. We don’t buy the larger message about a GOP ‘war on women.’ We know these are crude scare tactics designed to get our votes. But Democrats are making a huge miscalculation,” conservative Stephanie Gutmann wrote in an op-ed for USA Today.
“We are furious at the people purporting to speak for women, furious that what should have been an ordinary parsing of evidence (what little there is after 36 years) was turned into a Kabuki theater campaign ad for the Democratic Party, stressing their trope that the GOP is conducting a so-called war on women,” she wrote.
