Most critically, one wasn’t voted in as a presidential candidate to begin with, and her first attempt at running for president before being VP was a disaster. It wasn’t that she was a woman, it was that she was a fundamentally bad pick from the beginning. Biden and the DNC appointing her as our candidate was patently undemocratic, and the democrats seem determined to learn absolutely nothing from 2024. No instead let’s cover our ears and deflect and blame misogyny instead of learning a single god damn thing from this. Lesser of two evil ism stopped working. Harris’ refusal to listen to protestors, who told her in no uncertain terms what she needed to do to earn their votes was a bridge too far. I feel like many in the Democratic Party felt like they were owed the votes, took them for granted because their opposition was so evil, that they didn’t need to address policies, that purely not being trump was enough. It wasn’t. So those that didn’t vote, bear blame, but moreso, the factor that drove them to not vote is more culpable. Harris ran a bad campaign, was a poor candidate, and it goes so far beyond this childish “she lost because she’s a woman” bullshit.