Sex, Gender, and the Election — Part 3 of 3

A Sex and Gender Specialist Explains the Primal Reasons Behind the 2024 Election

This is the third and last part of Michael Gurian’s recent Substack post on how he interprets the recent presidential results. I first encountered Gurian’s work in 2003. I started to buy copies of his book, What Could He Be Thinking? How a Man’s Mind Really Works so that I could both recommend it to my clients, the parents of gifted children, and sell it to them on the spot. I hope you have enjoyed this series of guest posts.

Nov 22, 2024

The Revelation of Protection

Strong translates to protective in the human brain because evolutionary biology is set up that way. We vote for the leader whom we believe will protect us and our family — even when that person is as flawed as Trump is. While “it’s about the economy, stupid,” pundits always say, and of course they are right (the economy is almost always the biggest issue on people’s minds and Harris lost on the economy), a huge mistake will be made by Democrats and by women candidates in the future if they stick with just labeling Americans as sexists and racists and miss the link between “strength” and the biology of protection.

We exist as human beings in a hierarchy of four pro-social intentions (needs):