In a culture where "muh feelz" are of utmost importance (and finds an apotheosis in people who "feel" that their birth assigned-gender is in error, and therefore these folks are not what in fact they are; and is further fully sanctioned in an academe that says the correct curriculum is whatever the students "feel" it ought to be), this election makes perfect, rational sense.

I agree with Sr. Joan on almost nothing aside from the reality of the Incarnation (and this baffles me, but that is another discussion), but she is onto something here.