Last Week's Elections Spark Calls To Repeal Women's Right To Vote

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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/repeal-19th-amendment-christian-nationalism

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In the immediate aftermath of the election, many on the right sought to dismiss the results as not really a Democratic win at all. Speaker Mike Johnson insisted “there were no surprises,” saying,

“Blue states and blue cities all voted blue, we all saw that coming.”

Johnson’s statement, however, ignored the reality that Democratic wins were actually quite far-reaching. They crept deep into traditionally Republican territory, a reality that even some on the right were not willing to sweep so readily under the rug. Rather than outright deny the depth of the Republican losses, some MAGA voices, particularly conservative men, had an altogether different remedy in mind: calling for the repeal of the 19th Amendment. That amendment, of course, upon its ratification in 1920, ended the exclusion of women from the right to vote in the U.S.

According to last week’s exit polls, women—particularly young women—broke strongly for Democrats and were arguably directly responsible for the Republican rout that we saw on November 4. And just as voter ID laws are designed to dilute the influence of largely Democratic voting constituencies, such as students and low-income people of color, and just as mass deportations are viewed as a way to cut off a supply of likely future Democratic voters, the call to repeal the 19th Amendment is a means to simply remove Democrats from the voting universe. Presto!

Increasingly, for many in MAGA, the move to overturn the 19th Amendment poses an existential question. Prominent voices in the white Christian nationalist movement—one now deeply enmeshed with MAGA—view the repeal of women’s right to vote as more than about winning an election. It is a means to return to Biblical principles and a necessary step toward creating a theocracy in the United States.
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