Their hypocrisy has been exposed, in all its vicious, personal ugliness. This much was obvious: the real crusade of radical feminists is to bash men and advance a flagrantly leftist agenda: not to promote the success of women. If a woman doesn’t walk in lock step with their agenda, she can just forget about it. Not only will she get no help from radical feminists; they will try to destroy her.

But in feminist’s mightiest foe, conservatism found its most powerful voice of the election. This young, dynamic governor seemed to come from out of nowhere. But her voice, for but a fleeting moment, captured that desire in a majority of us, to break free from government’s limitations.