America Had a Female President Before You Could Vote. Here’s Why That Should Scare You.
Edith Wilson unofficially ran the United States for 17 months after her husband’s stroke — while women couldn’t even vote. Her ‘stewardship’ revealed a terrifying constitutional loophole that the 25th Amendment tried to fix but didn’t fully close. The story isn’t a feminist victory; it’s a warning about how informal power still threatens democracy today.