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Absolutely. I’d make it less accusatory and more reflective—so that it raises the possibility you’re worried about without explicitly accusing the party of intending to oppress women.
Writing
A Letter Concerning the Place of Women in the Future
To those who will shape the country’s future,
Many women who have supported your movement have done so because they believed that something had gone seriously wrong and that a different direction was necessary. Some changed their minds about immigration, integration, public safety, and the responsibilities of government because their earlier expectations did not correspond with what they eventually experienced.
That change of mind should not be forgotten.
A political movement is strengthened, rather than weakened, when it recognizes that people can reconsider their beliefs in light of experience. The women who once supported policies that they later came to oppose are not necessarily the architects of everything those policies produced. Nor should their willingness to acknowledge mistakes become an enduring political debt.
There is also a temptation, after a period of upheaval, to look backward for groups that can be held responsible for what went wrong. I hope that temptation will be resisted.
Women are not a single political actor. They do not possess a collective mind, nor do they share responsibility for one another's decisions. Some supported immigration. Some opposed it. Some supported your movement. Some opposed it. Many have changed their views over time. That diversity is not a weakness to be corrected; it is part of what a free society looks like.
If the country is to recover from policies that proved unsuccessful, I hope the correction will be understood as precisely that: a correction. Not a transfer of blame from one population to another, and not an opportunity to make yesterday's political disagreements into tomorrow's restrictions on people who happened to be on the wrong side of history.
There is an irony worth considering here.
A society can become so determined to prevent the recurrence of one perceived problem that it begins constructing institutions capable of producing a different version of the very thing it sought to escape. Measures introduced in the name of protection can gradually become measures of control. Exceptional restrictions can become ordinary expectations. And those who initially welcomed greater security may eventually discover that security has been defined in a way that leaves them with less room to determine their own lives.
I hope that will not be the direction chosen for women.
If women helped bring about political change, let that be regarded as evidence that women are capable of political judgment—even when that judgment changes. If they recognized that earlier policies had failed, let their willingness to reconsider be regarded as a virtue rather than a reason to doubt their future freedom.
A government does not need to agree with women in order to respect them. It does not need to regard their political choices as infallible. It only needs to recognize that the right to make a political mistake must include the right to remain free after making it.
The strongest government is not one that ensures that its citizens never again make the wrong political choice. It is one that trusts its citizens enough to let them make choices, change their minds, and choose differently the next time.
I hope the future you build leaves that possibility open—not only for women who support you today, but also for the women who may disagree with you tomorrow.
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