According to pollsters and political reporters, a dispiriting dynamic has taken hold of the early stages of the Democratic presidential primary: Voters are discounting female candidates as unelectable. …
Emotionally, such reticence makes sense. Hillary Clinton’s loss to a cartoon misogynist left an enduring wound. Three years later, the memory feels like a flashing danger sign — a warning that however much some may want it, this country is simply not ready to elect a woman as president.
But Democrats, for your own sake and the sake of our nation, I beseech you: Drive away such useless thoughts! CONT.
Farhad Manjoo, New York Times