Fascinating.
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Fascinating. And dangerously apt to fuel everyone’s pet theory — mine is that misogynoir is strong with women too; others will no doubt blame the campaign. Whatever it means, it’s definitely food for thought.
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@inthehands
Racism must be part of it, how much we'll get a better idea once psephologists have been able to pore over the data. Harris did pitch assiduously to allegedly anti-Trump middle-class Republicans. That effort seems to have fallen flat. Some of that must be due to racism and/or misogyny. -
@inthehands @Voline My gut when I saw the returns and some of the details on downballot initiatives was that more nice white ladies were racist, and more men of color were misogynist than I realized.
But that said, it feels like the fundamental problem is that us blue state/bubble liberals are failing to talk to folks to the left of us as well as folks who are more traditional. Rolling up the drawbridge and failing to have real conversation with folks we disagree with ain't working.
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@inthehands @Voline Here in Montana, we put the right to abortion up to viability into the constitution by at 15% margin. At the same time, we elected Trump by a 30% margin. And… there’s absolutely a lot of unacknowledged misogynoir here.
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@Voline
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@Voline
A mistake both the Democratic party establishment •and• leftists tend to make imo — in very different ways, but similar underlying bad mental model — is thinking that elections are primarily a time to persuade people. Persuasion happens elsewhere; if people change their minds, they do it slowly and mostly out of sight. Elections, just as you said, are not a time to persuade, but to energize.
