*This letter was written in response to the article “Power of young people remains unmatched.”

The election is over, and just as Trump lost in 2020, Democrats must also accept Harris’ loss now. Kamala Harris was overall a weak candidate, Americans desired change. She did not gain ground in a single state from 2020 or flip a single county, so the insinuation that Americans, and young voters especially, are somehow sexist or uninformed is a denigrating idea that will almost assuredly not gain votes in the next cycle. Donald Trump won the men under 30 demographic and kept the total demographic to a >10 percent threshold, so Gen Z is no longer the “liberal” generation, instead, a relatively moderate one. In fact, Baby Boomers voted to the left of Gen Z men this year. Instead, Democrats must examine why they lost, which is not because of their candidate’s gender or race. Her policy positions proved far too left for the American public, 56 percent of Americans rated them “too extreme”, and tying herself to the wildly unpopular Biden Administration did no help. Two in five Marylanders, and one in four Montgomery County residents, voted for Trump. Did the 60,000 voters from Biden 2020 to Trump 2024 voters suddenly become sexist? No, they wanted a stronger, less inflationary economy, and implying that fellow Americans are far-right extremists for simply voting for a different candidate is dangerous and only spurs more division. Democracy is not killed by democracy. This is simply a turning of the page in American history, and we all must not look back, but forward.

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