Letter to the editor: Why Harris lost, part 2
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Some Democratic analysts are blaming Kamala Harris’ loss on racism and sexism. They’re right. Only not in the way they think.
By almost exclusively focusing on women of color, the Harris campaign alienated white women and men of all stripes, the vast majority of whom turned out for Donald Trump.
Harris didn’t seem to make any noticeable effort to address the concerns of “non-college educated,” “working class,” “low propensity” “garbage” in “flyover country” whose males are hopelessly infected by “toxic masculinity.”
The Trump campaign met men where they are and spoke directly to their issues. Trump recognized that positive economic numbers mean little to those who are one paycheck away from the curb.
Harris ignored basic bread-and-butter issues. Instead, she dispatched Barack Obama to insist the only possible reason a man didn’t support Harris was because his Neanderthal brain was incapable of conceiving of a woman president.
The left might be surprised to learn the targets of their scorn do not suffer from Stockholm syndrome. Thus, when they sneer at religion and disdain expressions of ethnic pride as radical right-wing extremism, the gaslighted targets of such condescension are bound to take issue.
And for the record: Statistically it’s virtually impossible that there weren’t “fine people on both sides” at Charlottesville.
Peter Busowski
Jeannette