On February 13, 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia died. Before his body was in the ground, Senate Majority Leader announced he would block anyone President Barack Obama nominated to fill Scalia’s seat. The next week, Jeb Bush dropped out of the Republican primary, quickly followed by Marco Rubio, and eventually Ted Cruz, leaving Donald Trump as the presumptive nominee. showed Hillary Clinton beating Trump by solid margins, with forecasters pegging her chances of victory from to percent, and Democrats to take back the Senate.I was working for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid at the time. Being...…On February 13, 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia died. Before his body was in the ground, Senate Majority Leader announced he would block anyone President Barack Obama nominated to fill Scalia’s seat. The next week, Jeb Bush dropped out of the Republican primary, quickly followed by Marco Rubio, and eventually Ted Cruz, leaving Donald Trump as the presumptive nominee. showed Hillary Clinton beating Trump by solid margins, with forecasters pegging her chances of victory from to percent, and Democrats to take back the Senate.I was working for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid at the time. Being...WW…

’s exit reaffirmed that everyone loves a powerful woman as soon as she stops trying to take power away from men. It’s science: A 2010 Harvard study that “when female politicians are perceived to be power-seeking, voters react negatively with feelings of moral outrage.” There’s no way to run for president of the United States without being perceived as power-seeking, and the outrage directed at Warren tracked perfectly with the study’s findings, as she was of offenses like being “too ambitious, too needy, too much.”Intentionally or not, Warren’s Democratic rivals channeled this sexist...…’s exit reaffirmed that everyone loves a powerful woman as soon as she stops trying to take power away from men. It’s science: A 2010 Harvard study that “when female politicians are perceived to be power-seeking, voters react negatively with feelings of moral outrage.” There’s no way to run for president of the United States without being perceived as power-seeking, and the outrage directed at Warren tracked perfectly with the study’s findings, as she was of offenses like being “too ambitious, too needy, too much.”Intentionally or not, Warren’s Democratic rivals channeled this sexist...WW…