Last week outside a Massachusetts courthouse, roughly 400 people, most of them women dressed in pink, rallied in support of a mother on trial for strangling her three children. Some wore buttons reading "standing with Lindsay." Others carried signs telling a woman charged with killing an 8-month-old, a 3-year-old, and a 5-year-old that she's a good mom.

I understand postpartum psychosis is real, rare, and devastating, and that a jury, not a crowd outside a courthouse, should decide whether it applies here. What I don't understand is how several hundred people end up in matching pink cheering for a defendant in a triple homicide before a single juror has spoken. You get there through isolation. Not physical isolation. Ideological isolation, the kind where everyone you talk to already agrees with you, so group solidarity starts to feel like moral clarity.

That isolation has a data trail. Politically liberal women, who align overwhelmingly with the Democratic Party, report far less life satisfaction and far more loneliness than their conservative peers. Researchers using the 2024 American Family Survey found that 37 percent of conservative women call themselves completely satisfied with life. Among liberal women, the figure is 12 percent. About half that gap traces back to two things: marriage and church attendance. Conservative women are married at rates 20 points higher, and they attend church weekly at more than four times the rate of liberal women.

The other half of the gap is harder to graph but easy to see. Gallup's own trend data shows young women........

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