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Democratic-voting Americans are feeling strengthened in their belief that most of the United States would rather have someone other than a woman as president after Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

On social media, Harris voters expressed feelings of disappointment and sadness that she will not go down in history as the first female U.S. president.

But what seemed to resonate with hundreds of thousands of people were posts written in anger that a man convicted of a serious crime, twice indicted and four times indicted was victorious.

“The only thing America hates more than a rapist is a woman,” wrote one X user, who racked up more than 600,000 likes and 100,000 reposts.

“(I don't know) why I keep being shocked when I rediscover how much our country hates women,” wrote another.

Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton said she hoped Harris would do what she couldn't and defeat Trump to break the “highest, toughest glass ceiling” in America. But as the swing states fell to Trump one by one on Tuesday evening, it became increasingly clear that this would not be the case.

On the surface, Wednesday's results resemble sentiments from the 2016 presidential election, when Trump defeated Clinton even though she was the preferred candidate with more political experience and fewer radical policy proposals.

But this time there seems to be a much deeper sense of confusion and anger, given that Trump's eight-year political history is filled with controversies, civil and criminal lawsuits and allegations of misconduct.

In 2020, voters appeared ready to abandon the former president, who refused to concede to President Joe Biden and incited a crowd of violent, angry supporters to the Capitol as Congress tried to certify the election results.

That motivation appeared to strengthen after Trump claimed credit for the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade in 2022 – Trigger laws come into effect across the country.

Harris' campaign, staunchly committed to protecting reproductive rights and upholding democracy, had hoped to achieve results similar to Biden's victory.

But the message to Democrats Wednesday morning was that it wasn't enough to convince most of the country, especially men, to leave Trump in the past.

“If Trump wins twice against two different women but loses to another man, it's not about the candidate, it's about his hatred of women,” one X user wrote.

The former president targeted young white men throughout his campaign, entertaining influencers like Joe Rogan by joining their podcasts or YouTube shows for interviews. The so-called “brother vote” may have helped him a lot to win the election.

“Aside from Harris' incredibly misguided campaign, the way millions of young men in this country have been trained to hate and rail against women by prominent misogynists is truly appalling,” one X user noted.

“The right-wing radicalization of high school and college-aged men is truly one of the biggest crises in the United States, and it remains almost entirely unaddressed,” echoed another person.