The Dead End of Political Misogyny
October 24, 2024
The erosion of social trust is a defining mark of our time, a commonplace of today’s jeremiads. From government and ecclesial leaders to corporations, universities, and the media, Americans are weary of our institutions and disappointed by our leaders. Such widespread mistrust impacts the American regime significantly: Neither a market economy nor a republican polity can exist without the goodwill and fair dealing of its participants. But however much we are right to worry about the decline in social trust, it has nothing on the coming civilizational reckoning represented by the growing cleavage between the sexes.
It’s not only that young women are increasingly telling pollsters that they don’t want to marry or bear children. For the first time in US history, women are voting as a bloc to politically secure that act of radical bodily autonomy that signifies the full eclipse of trust in men.
