Bitter Pill

Okay, in light of the fact that Trump has expanded the ability of employers to deny women contraception coverage through the Affordable Care Act based on religious or moral objections, let me see if I have this straight (bear with me here):

Many Democrats, especially many female Democrats, were so insistent on making Hillary Clinton the first female President that they rigged the system to ensure her the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.  The party needed to win the 2016 election.  They needed to win to protect the advances in women's rights against misogynistic Republicans.  They wanted to ensure that contraception coverage and other women's health services would remain available to all women.  But at the same time, they were so desirous of getting a woman in the White House that they got behind Hillary Clinton, a lousy candidate whom many people suspected could not win a general election.  There were ten women that the Democrats could have nominated for President in 2016.  The first was Hillary and no one cared who the other nine were.  And they cared even less about any of the cisgendered white males who were Hillary's opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.

Moreover, Hillary partisans tried to shame women who dared to support one of said opponents, namely Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley.  Remember when Madeleine Albright said there was a special place in hell for women who didn't support Hillary?  And how about Gloria Steinem's comment that female Sanders supporters were only supporting Sanders to meet guys?  The message was clear: Hillary was going to be the Democratic presidential nominee because it was not just a woman's turn, it was this woman's turn - and cisgendered white males need not apply.  Despite everything at stake for women's rights, the Hillbots were hell-bent (Hill-bent?) on making Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nominee and counting on her to make history for women in America by getting elected President, even though it turned out that she could not beat Donald Trump, instead of nominating a man - Sanders or O'Malley - who could have beaten Trump and would have protected contraception access and other women's health services.  But Democrats just weren't going to bother with a cisgendered white male nominee.  Now we have a cisgendered white male Republican President taking away contraception coverage for millions of American women . . . all because the Hillbots in the Democratic Party preferred a woman who couldn't win over one of two men who could have won.

You Hillbots didn't think this thing through, did you?

I could have told you that this was too big a risk to take back in 2016, but ahh, who would listen to a cisgendered white male like me anyway?

And you really blew it by choosing not to at least consider Elizabeth Warren.