The problem with talentless Left-wing women

From the Telegraph

In the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election, a pro-Democrat campaign group released an advert voiced by Julia Roberts. “In the one place where women still have the right to choose, you can do the right thing,” it said, which of course meant voting for Kamala Harris, a barely sentient candidate with bad ideas, just because she was a woman. The subtext was that oppressed female voters could only give voice to their inevitably Left-wing opinions in the privacy of the polling booth.

At the time, some wondered if the advert was a joke. But these people exist – the ones who believe that anybody who votes differently or thinks differently to them must be dumb, racist, misogynistic, evil or abused. Sometimes, they hold the most influential jobs in the country.

This week, former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki appeared on a podcast to discuss US Vice President JD Vance, and in doing so, revealed just how deep this condescension runs.

“I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife,” Psaki mused, in that smug, brunch-with-the-girls tone peculiar to the hosts of The View. “Like, are you OK? Please blink four times… We’ll save you.”

What Psaki seemed not to know – or worse, not to care about – is that Usha Vance is not some docile appalachian Stepford wife cowering behind a wood-burning stove. She’s a Yale-educated lawyer who clerked for both Chief Justice John Roberts on the US Supreme Court and Brett Kavanaugh. She has three children, a formidable CV and a life that suggests she could probably argue most people in Washington DC into intellectual submission before breakfast with her beautiful family. She could certainly outwit the quivering, bumbling, pathetic excuse of a press secretary that was Jen Psaki.

To assume that Usha Vance has been brainwashed, bullied or captured by her husband’s politics is more than insulting, it’s revealing. It tells us that Psaki, and the many who nodded along to her “blink if you need help” joke, apparently cannot conceive of an intelligent, successful woman choosing conservatism freely.

This is what makes Psaki’s comment so much worse than a cheap laugh line. It’s a confession – not about Usha Vance, but about the patronising world-view of a certain class of feminist who cannot imagine disagreement without dysfunction. If you’re a conservative woman, they assume you must be brainwashed. If you’re married to a conservative man, you must be terrified.

From the comments

• One only needs to look closer to home at Jess Philips, Angela Rayner and the Queen of Limited Talent Diane Abbott.

To which from this morning one can add Lucy Powell, newly elected as Labour Party Deputy leader.  The dozy bint who sneered at a member of the Reform party who raised the scandal of the grooming rape gangs with “oh, we want to blow that little trumpet now do we” and “let’s get that dog whistle out shall we”.