In Vote Like a Woman, a substack article posted prior to the American midterms, Naomi Wolf urged female voters to reward Democrats for their Covid authoritarianism by voting against the party. After all, women have for many years formed a consistent, if now diminishing, pro-Democrat bloc.

It has not been my experience that women are particularly well-informed voters or scrupulous about the freedoms and self-determination that form Wolf’s ultimate rallying cry (more on this later).