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When former President Donald Trump proclaimed that he will “protect” women “whether the women like it or not,” he was not appealing to female voters. He was betting that enough male voters yearn to return to the male dominance era of the 1950s to elect him president. Those were the days when a young woman was told that, if she wasn’t married or engaged by her early 20s, she risked becoming an “old maid” — or in Sen. JD Vance’s updated version, a “childless cat lady.” In the 1950s, women went to college to get an MRS — a “Mrs.”...

Instead of opening a formal impeachment inquiry in Ukrainegate, Democrats should have calmed down, taken a deep breath and counted to 67. That’s the number of votes needed in the Senate to remove a president from office via impeachment. Getting to that number, which requires at least 20 Republican senators to vote to remove President Trump, should have driven every impeachment calculation by the Democrats. Yet, that seems to be the least of their focus. Judging by their overheated rhetoric, Democrats appear to have decided, largely based on initial news reports. The reporting alleged Trump threatened to deprive Ukraine, an...