Judge Dugan and the ELF (Educated Liberal Female) Threat to Democracy

Her Aiding And Abetting of an Illegal Alien Is Symptom of a Larger Problem

On Tuesday, April 29, the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Judge Hannah Dugan from her judicial duties for her role in obstructing and concealing from arrest a criminal illegal alien named Eduardo Flores-Ruiz. This story is well enough known, but what needs more light is the phenomenon that Dugan represents, namely the threat to democracy and the rule of law posed by educated liberal females, ELFs for short.

I know, some prefer the acronym AWFL—as in affluent white female liberal—but ELF is more inclusive. A woman does not have to be white or affluent to be a menace to society, but she does have to be educated and liberal.

Dugan is textbook ELF. Educated at the historically woke University of Wisconsin, the 65-year-old judge has been immersed in progressive swamps throughout her career. Notes one biography, “Her passion for justice and equity led her to work with organizations like the Legal Aid Society and Catholic Charities of Southeastern Wisconsin.” Dugan was also a past president of the Milwaukee Bar Association—if a typical bar association, a hotbed of Elfery.

As far as I can tell, Dugan is unmarried and childless. (Will correct, if wrong). Today, more than a third of college-educated women are childless. Then, too, marriage rates among the educated continue to decline as they have over the past 40 years while the age of first marriage continues to increase.

In the not too distant past, women attended college with the expectation of finding a spouse. Today, they would have much better luck hanging out at a construction site. As late as 1970, there were five men for every four women in America's four-year colleges. Today, there are almost two women for every man.

Once in college, the progressive grooming that began quietly in their local public school now publicly and proudly moves to center stage. A study of faculty voter registration at 40 leading U.S. universities showed a more than ten-to-one ratio of Democrats to Republicans with the numbers skewing higher in liberal arts and among young faculty. In some fields, there are no Republicans at all.

Lacking a male counterpoint in their lives and often majoring in subjects with a social justice agenda, college women enter the political arena not so much uninformed as misinformed. Given that communications/journalism faculty members skew 20 to 1 Democrat, the media these young ELFs consume will only reinforce the biases nurtured in college.

The ELFs fail to see how deeply they have been propagandized. In the run-up to the 2024 election, ELFs did not want to know about the border crisis or Biden’s dementia or Hunter's laptop, and their media obliged them. If their social media allowed alternative voices to bleed through, the ELFs were the first to demand that those voices be silenced.

Not surprisingly, female college graduates comprised the only white cohort to give fellow ELF Kamala Harris the majority of their votes. There were nearly twice as likely as white women without a college degree to have voted for Harris.

At the core of the ELFs' susceptibility is a toxic mix of arrogance and ignorance. This should not surprise. Everywhere and always, men have performed better on political knowledge tests than women, just as conservatives routinely outperform liberals and independents. Researchers exploring this particular gender gap long ago gave up on questioning whether this was true and have focused instead on why.

The results of a survey of 10,000 individuals across ten nations by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) threw researchers for a loop. What most surprised James Curran of the University of London was that "gaps in political knowledge are wider in countries that have done the most to promote gender equality." Curran noted that women's scores in the U.K., the U.S., and Canada were more than 30 percent lower on average than men's, a significantly greater gender gap than in Greece, Italy, and Korea.

The ESRC data suggest that formal education may actually increase the knowledge gap between men and women. There are reasons why this is so. Historically, married women have tended to vote more conservatively than their unmarried peers. Spousal influence plays a role in their voting, but so does the added awareness of real issues that comes with raising a family and owning a home.

The danger that ELFs pose to constitutional government became all too evident in the Black Swan year of 2020. With the onset of COVID, ELFs quickly found themselves in the grip of what Belgian psychologist Dr. Mattias Desmet calls "mass formation psychosis." Writes Desmet in his surprise bestseller, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, "It is, in essence. a kind of group hypnosis that destroys individuals' ethical self-awareness and robs them of their ability to think critically."

Devoid of ethical self-awareness, it was the ELFs that emerged as our "Karens." What made them truly dangerous was their belief, given their education, that they knew more than the people they were hectoring. They didn't. If proof were needed, a study of 35,000 U.S. adults by Franklin Templeton-Gallup revealed that a shocking 41 percent of Democrats believed that 50 percent or more of those who contracted COVID ended up in the hospital. The correct answer was 1–5 percent.

Through their control of the teachers' unions, ELFs have outsized influence on Democrat party politics. Deeply misinformed about COVID's impact, ELFs used their influence to lock down schools as long as they possibly could. Other people’s kids, especially the less affluent, will never recover.

In her essential book, The Bodies of Others, Naomi Wolf reveals how her "affluent, liberal 'tribe'" behaved during the COVID years. It wasn't pretty. These "new authoritarians" resisted information outside approved channels and smugly oppressed the "working people" who dared question the orthodoxy du jour. Wolf documents in lived experience what Desmet describes as a "profound intolerance of dissident voices and pronounced susceptibility to pseudo-scientific indoctrination and propaganda."

By contrast, of the ten women I profile in my book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, at least nine openly protested the lockdowns associated with what the late Ashli Babbitt aptly called the “controla virus.” Of the ten only one had a liberal arts degree but all were well grounded in the Constitution and American history.

I have heard it asked, ‘What was Judge Dugan thinking when she let Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an accused woman-beater, run free while his victims sat helplessly in court?” The best answer would seem to be, ‘She wasn’t.’ She did not have to think. In the grips of a mesmerizing TDS, her response was Pavolvian, pure Manchurian candidate. Her mentors had groomed her for this historic moment.

Only eight of the women I profile in Ashli survived the day. All eight of them were incarcerated. The worst “crime” any of them committed was breaking a window. That woman, a mother of eight, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years. Not a single ELF came to her defense or the defense of any of the other 1600 victims of the greatest mass injustice on American soil since Japanese internment.

As I write, aging ELFs stand outside the Milwaukee court house with signs reading “Hannah Dugan is My Hero” and “No Due Process, No Peace.” As to the woman beaten by Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, she had to go into hiding.

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