Evil-signaling
Department of silly titles department.
Trump’s triumph is a disaster for Starmer and the self-regarding, virtue-signalling elites
Well, yes, but it’s not quite that simple. Just for one thing it’s also a festival for the rich, destructive, profit at all costs elites.
Preening virtue-signaling thought-policing lefties can be annoying, especially when they forget that women are not The Enemy, but that doesn’t make the blunt misogyny and racism and generalized contempt of Trump more acceptable. The choice is not between gender police and Trump; there’s a huge amount of territory between those two silly poles.
That territory is where most people live.
I have a Facebook friend who insists that the trans issue on the part of the Democrats is what lost them the election this time around. And it may have cost them a few votes, but I don’t think that it swayed so large of a difference in the states that Harris needed to have made a real difference.
I think that the larger problem had to do with sex and race. Despite the example of other western nations having had effective women as leaders, the United State has too many people who are not willing to have a woman in charge.
The disinterest and meandering “speeches” of Trump during his rallies didn’t alarm anyone who had been concerned about Biden’s performances, not enough anyway to consider voting for a black woman.
Mike, I agree. I do think sex was the bigger issue, since we have had a black president, and weren’t able to elect a white woman in 2016. But the additional demographic certainly didn’t help.