Forcing Women to Have Babies

“Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all,” said Arthur Balfour, PM of Great Britain, in the early 1900s.

I humbly beg to differ with Mr. Balfour. This has been a long nail-biter. After the criminal indictments, the disaster debates, the sitting President dropping out, the oddity of the Kamala Harris nomination, the assassination attempts, it’s time to take a deep breath. Awakening at 3 am, it was hard not to check media headlines. Instead, I forced myself to continue reading Robert Lacey’s The Crown. Nothing was going to happen in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, I assured myself: America’s democratic institutions, as The WSJ points out, are strong and resilient. It’s important for the millions of disappointed voters to not forget, a win or loss is only good till the next election. That’s the “brilliance” of a constitutional republic.

I’m 100% with Freddy Grey: Who doesn’t want this to be over? Clarifying in the Spectator, Mr. Gray writes that the clearest split between the two campaigns was the gender divide.

Harris–Walz has been almost absurdly feminized: its late adverts urged married women to lie to their husbands about voting for the Democratic candidate.

Trump–Vance has, by contrast, made a clear pitch for the forgotten macho man, summed up by its excitement last night that Joe Rogan, the biggest podcast bro on the planet, had at last endorsed the Donald.

The age of equality has pushed us towards a great clash between the sexes. And the struggle between man and woman is one that matters to us all.