Lauren Witzke
Women should never have been granted the right to vote, to hold public office, or to wield judicial power as Supreme Court justices. The record of the past century suggests that women, on balance, have struggled to exercise such authority with the necessary detachment. They vote their emotions, every single time. Not logic. In 100 years, women rose from exclusion to positions of immense influence…only to channel much of that power toward policies and rulings that have accelerated the erosion of America’s constitutional order and national cohesion. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s approach to the birthright citizenship was obvious: she entered the discussion visibly inclined to locate a loophole, guided more by the empathetic impulse of having two Haitian children. Granting this degree of power to women has been a costly experiment, one whose results now speak for themselves. RIP UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
