Like the civil rights movement, the successes of the women’s movement have bent the moral arc of the universe. That, however, is not the question here. Our focus is on what feminism’s effect has been on American party politics. And from the standpoint of what feminists and Democrats have wanted to achieve, the answer is decidedly mixed. Beginning in the 1970s, as Republicans wooed the religious Right, and continuing through the Donald Trump era, feminism has brought women into the Democratic Party and strengthened its ranks. It has also opened new avenues for women’s leadership in the states and in Washington. Opposition to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade also helped Democrats win the House of Representatives in 2018. In the first months of the second Trump administration, college-educated women have led the charge against what has been, for them, something of a political horror show. As a group, they have been the most critical of Trump’s stances. But the preeminence of feminism and of college-educated women has also provoked a backlash, one that’s benefited Republicans while em­powering a stridently anti-feminist conservative opposition…