An op-ed at the Washington Examiner raises some interesting points on that score.

Both former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President-elect Donald Trump in earth-shattering fashion. During their respective runs, Clinton and Harris were viewed as inevitable and deserving. Each was conferred the special ability to make history by becoming the first female president, ending the United States’s patriarchal domination once and for all. At least, this is the narrative they sold.

Each campaign should have been about the best Democrat for the job, who just happened to be a woman. Instead, the campaigns were so focused on breaking a glass ceiling that all things became secondary to the biology of their candidates. //

What the Democrats don't seem to understand about elections, especially the one that just concluded, is that the American people are looking for a bit more in the Chief Executive than melanin content and whether the candidate is a setter or a pointer. //

Time will tell who becomes the first female presidential candidate for the Republican Party, but it’s safe to say she won’t focus on sex and gender above all else. There’s no reason to exclude the achievement of making history, but that should never be a main motivation for any candidate. It’s a tiresome, superficial strategy that clearly does not work. Beyond that, the nation deserves so much more than a leader who includes among her top goals the desire to soothe progressive sensibilities. //

if the GOP nominates a woman to run for president, the decision won't be because of her skin color or chromosome balance. It will be because she is strong, capable, and committed to the principles of liberty and property - to a strong, prosperous America. In other words, she won't get the nod because of her sex, but because she is who the GOP chooses as the best candidate.

That's a lesson that the Democrats could stand to learn. But, if this election just concluded is an indication, let's hope they never figure it out.