How Kamala’s Focus On Gender Ideology Cost Her The Election

Imagine being a strategist for the Democrat Party right now. You’re tasked with conducting a post-mortem analysis of an election in which virtually every single demographic group in the country, in all 50 states, turned very sharply against you. Tens of millions of Americans ignored the endorsements of modern-day oracles like Taylor Swift and Queen Latifah and voted for the candidate you’ve been calling a Hitler-loving “threat to democracy.” How do you even begin to catalog all of the various failures that led your party to this point? 

Up until now, the prevailing excuse in the Democrat Party has been pretty clear. As I’ve outlined before, many Democrats are happy to dismiss the entire country as racist and sexist. In fact, Hispanics are apparently racist against themselves. This is the kind of theory you come up with when you don’t want to actually talk to Hispanic people, or be anywhere near them for that matter. But you have to find some way to explain why they might want to build a wall and enforce the law, so you conclude that they must hate themselves. That must be it.

At the same time, there is at least one Democrat-aligned group that’s taking a different and more serious approach. I’m talking about something called Blueprint, which I hadn’t heard of until a day ago. Blueprint describes itself as a “vital tool” that can help Democrats win elections in the future. This is a Left-wing group that basically tries to craft messaging for the DNC.

Over the past week, Blueprint has employed pollsters and strategists to figure out how Democrats lost so badly on Election Day. They’ve been tasked with sifting through the wreckage to identify what caused the implosion. And what they’ve found is remarkable. Even given all the endless polls and analysis we’ve been subjected to this month, this one stands out.

I hadn’t seen these results until Charlie Kirk pointed them out the other day, in a post on X. He posted this chart of Blueprint’s findings. It shows all the issues that voters cared about in this election, ranked by their level of relative importance. They calculated this by asking voters to compare a bunch of issues, in a kind of round-robin analysis.

Chart courtesy: Blueprint2024.com.

As you can see, there are a lot of issues on that list. Voters had many options to choose from. And according to Blueprint’s findings, swing voters who ultimately voted for Trump — meaning, the people who determined the outcome of this election — were very unhappy with Kamala Harris’ focus on transgender issues. In fact, Kamala’s views on topics like transgenderism, at the expense of substantive issues, was the number-one, most important issue on these swing voters’ minds.

Just so we’re clear on the terms, Blueprint defines a “swing voter” as:

those who are undecided in the presidential race, have changed their voting preference since 2020 (voting Democrat in one election and Republican in the other), or are independents who either indicate they split their votes between Democrats and Republicans, or who hold either favorable or unfavorable views of both Trump and Harris.

If you go to Blueprint’s crosstabs, here’s what they found specifically about this group of voters. Among swing voters who ultimately voted for Trump, the top reason for voting for Trump over Kamala was:

Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class.

That was the single most important issue for these swing voters, relative to all the others. The next most important issue was inflation, followed closely by illegal migration.

This is a finding that, if you had floated it as a possibility prior to the election, would’ve gotten you laughed out of the room. But now that Democrats realize that most voters think they’re crazy, they’re finally talking about it. Democrat-aligned pollsters are openly recognizing that transgenderism — including the associated government policies that have been championed by trans activists and the Biden-Harris administration — is a massive problem for the Democrat Party.

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And yet, this is a problem that — certainly at least in a pre-”What Is A Woman?” world — very few Republicans wanted to touch. In fact, plenty of Republicans still don’t want to talk about this. It’s an issue that for years I was personally ridiculed for pursuing, including by many on the Right. Even among people who believe we’re on the correct side of the whole debate, a lot of them still said it was a waste of time to talk about it.

These people think that so-called “culture war issues” are a side show. They’re “irrelevant distractions,” supposedly. But they aren’t. Culture is everything. It’s the stuff that a nation is made of. And that matters politically. People vote for culture. People don’t just vote based on candidates’ personalities, or on specific proposals. They vote for the country they want to live in. And now, a critical mass of those voters have decided that they don’t want to live in a country that can’t even define the word “woman.”

To be clear, this result isn’t saying that transgenderism was at the top of voters’ minds all by itself. Instead, what this result reveals is that trans issue is about much more than just transgenderism. It’s symptomatic of something larger and deeper. Voters see the trans agenda as an assault on truth and basic common sense, which is exactly what it is. It’s a destructive set of beliefs that serves only to derail human progress while harming a lot of people.

Trans ideology requires that Americans affirm what is not true and reject objective reality, on the theory that this is somehow the more “humane” approach. But there’s nothing humane or sustainable about lying — especially when the point of the lying is to obscure something as fundamental as human biology and human nature. If you tolerate lies about that, then you will tolerate lies about anything. 

If a white guy wants to identify as black, then you can’t object. 

If a politician wants to claim that crime is down when it’s clearly not, then you can’t complain about that, either. 

If the government wants to claim the economy is doing fine when no one can find a job or afford groceries, then you have to shut up and take it.

Once reality is subjective, you can’t communicate anymore in any meaningful way, much less fix problems. All you can do is spiral down further and further into delusions. Trans ideology is built on the premise that we all have our own truth. That there is no objective reality or universal truth that we are all expected to acknowledge.

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If we accept trans ideology, we accept this premise. And if we accept this premise, we have tacitly accepted every other Left-wing premise, because now we have no basis to deny any of it. We cannot call anything untrue. Now there is nothing that can be called untrue. Which means there is also nothing that can be called true. This is the fundamental reason why the fight against trans ideology matters. It’s the case that some of us have been making for many years, even against the objections of our own side. But now the voters see it and agree. And it’s one of the main reasons why Democrats were just obliterated in the election.

The Trump campaign understood that this issue would resonate with voters. That’s why they released this ad, which may have been the single most effective ad in the entire campaign. In fact it may be one of the best ads ever produced by a political campaign. Watch:

When she spoke to Fox News — in the only hostile interview she participated in during the entire campaign — Kamala was asked directly about this ad. She had the opportunity to disavow all of this nonsense. She could’ve admitted that it was a terrible idea to use taxpayer money to fund sex changes for illegals, or for anyone else. She could’ve acknowledged that people can’t change their gender or pick their pronouns. She also could’ve laid out a clear definition of the word “woman” — which is a pretty important word to define, since she was campaigning to be the first woman president.

In other words, Kamala had the opportunity to do what the African tribesmen did when I spoke to them in “What is a Woman?“. She could have laughed in the face of this absurdity, as anyone with common sense would do. She could have demonstrated to Americans that she’s not going to surrender the federal government to a small number of radical, anti-truth activists. But Kamala didn’t do any of that.

Instead, here’s how she addressed this ad when Bret Baier brought it up:

So she mocks the Trump campaign for spending so much money on the ad. This is the candidate whose campaign raised a billion dollars and ended up in debt by tens of millions of dollars because they hired a bunch of celebrity influencers who, it turns out, have no influence. Yet she’s lecturing the Trump campaign on how they should’ve spent their money. Maybe the Trump campaign should’ve gone bankrupt in order to get Megan Thee Stallion to twerk on stage. That strategy obviously worked out so well for Kamala.

And then Kamala goes on to dismiss the whole issue as unimportant. She claims that Americans don’t really care about all of this trans stuff. But they do. They care about it because they care about truth. And they care about truth because if you don’t have that, literally nothing else matters.

Already, there are some signs that Left-wing media is coming around, ever so begrudgingly, to this reality. Here’s Joe Scarborough, for example.

You can imagine how well this monologue went over among the various LGBTQ alphabet activist groups and publications.

The Advocate, for example, wrote an entire article attacking Scarborough for this. They stated that, 

“If you voted for Donald Trump and against Kamala Harris because you had something against the trans community, you were beyond an outlier. You were not even a blip on the radar. So why are people like Joe and Mika callously targeting the trans community for Harris’s loss? And why are they doing it so brazenly? Instead of discussing the real reasons why Harris lost to Trump, they trash innocent human beings. The most vulnerable in society.”

So again, they assume this is a fringe issue, when it’s obviously not. They think voters who are tired of trans nonsense are a “blip on the radar.” But the truth is — as this Blueprint poll demonstrates — Americans don’t want to affirm lies anymore. They are tired of having their culture held hostage by these people. It doesn’t matter how much you try to berate these voters for “trashing innocent human beings” or whatever. Something is either true or it’s not. Affirming the truth is not “trashing” anyone. It’s the bare minimum necessary to ensure that society can continue to function.

On CNN, they still haven’t come around to this realization. Instead, they just hosted a live on-air struggle session after a guest pointed out that Americans don’t like the idea of boys competing in women’s sports. Watch:

Yes, it’s now a “slur” to refer to a boy as a boy. If a 12-year-old boy says he feels like a girl, you don’t get to substitute your bigoted opinions for the well-informed judgment of a preteen. Who do you think you are? All you get to do is nod your head and ask a doctor to pump his body full of sterilizing hormones. This is the position of CNN. It’s the position of the woman hosting this show. But it’s the position of a vanishingly small amount of the electorate.

That clip goes on for a while, by the way. The first guy says something that’s obviously true — that boys are competing in women’s sports, and they shouldn’t be — and then gets relentlessly heckled for it. He’s eventually told that the “American Medical Association” says that children can change their gender, so therefore, you don’t get to have an opinion on the topic. You have to accept their judgment or else you’ll get banned from CNN, just like the last guest who tried to speak his mind on this same panel.

This is the divide that the Democrats are experiencing right now as a party. This is the choice they have. They can either choose to acknowledge reality, or they can double down on absurdities and falsehoods. If they go with the absurdities and falsehoods, then they’re going to keep haranguing Americans, calling for censorship, and screaming at an audience that’s rapidly becoming nonexistent. Whatever they decide, it’s now clear that voters have made up their minds. On Tuesday, swing voters decided that affirming reality is the single most important issue in this country. This is the political victory that we’ve been seeking from the moment we began fighting the deranged excesses of gender ideology several years ago. And now it’s here. But as long as the Left keeps pushing it, the fight will continue.