Keep repeating your mistakes. Deemphasize is not to mean ignore. Keep feeling like a female, we need some thinking.
No, it means to reject, which is worse than to ignore.
If nobody is a champion for conservative social issues, then those that hold them dear will get persecuted for them instead. The left-wingers in the Democratic Party are strong doctrinarians. The 2010 “shellacking” did not come about because of a de-emphasis, but rather a re-emphasis, on both social and fiscal issues, which are intertwined; the 2012 election stumbling is thanks to a strong de-emphasis thereof.