As Election Day approaches, the bases of support for Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump grow more and more distinct from one another. 

The most straightforward factor dividing voters is gender. This pattern is predictable, considering the campaign choices of the two candidates, and represents the Democratic Party’s working principle. 

Most prominent in Harris’s campaign has been her abortion advocacy. It stands in for the larger mischaracterization that the GOP is anti-woman. The Democratic Party relies on this dichotomy not only for its present persuasiveness but for the coherence of its platform as a whole. Given that increasing numbers of young women identify as liberal, Democrats tailor their issues just so. It makes sense: They want to keep their bloc, especially one as easily mobilized as misguided women under 30 years old. Moreover, the Democratic Party has long claimed responsibility over women’s rights. A movement that was arguably innocuous at its inception has by now pitted men against any political or societal good a woman might pursue.

The Democratic Party has thus built its constituency on the lie that people (women, primarily) are happier without marriage. It is typical of the Left to divert attention away from truth and toward a shifty political agenda. We see this trend play out in attacks on Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) vice presidential campaign, notably with the obstinate misinterpretation of his “cat ladies” comments, and again as he explained his criticism of Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) claims of wartime military service. Similarly, the empirical truth that marriage is good for society matters little in the face of the liberal status quo. 

Data show that liberal men and women are less happy with life and less satisfied with their mental health, and rates of depression among young liberal women are especially prominent. The Democratic Party capitalizes on this proclivity. It advocates away from family life, maintains the general sadness of its constituents, and redirects this dissatisfaction toward its enemy party. It offers identity politics as a stand-in community, with Walz being the “dad” of the bunch.

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But as with most members of the Democratic Party, Walz is only a useful figure inasmuch as he props up the platform. What the media laud of his life is what the party discourages for its constituents: an apparently sweet, devoted family life.

It is a contradictory mindset for one to hold that the movement of women toward liberal issues signals a fear over changing norms, while a reelection of Trump indicates that America is “afraid of change.” If the current state of affairs is low marriage and fertility rates, who then wants societal change? Liberal women cannot but explain their predicament without recourse to a practiced platform, and it may be that this is exactly where the Democratic Party wants them.