Stop Calling Us Idiots

I am from the Gold Coast (U.S. Census Bureau, Super-Public Use Microdata Area Region 09600). In my neighborhood, this election season has been one of alarmism and hand-wringing about the Death of Democracy/Rise of Fascism that a new Trump term would usher in.

Now that the election is over, the analysis is not “what did we miss?” Rather it is “how come these voters can't see the terrible thing that they have chosen?”

Speculation is made about why Ms. Harris lost that has nothing to do with her vision or policy. Rather it suggests we are still racist, she was “perceived as weaker,” “she started late,” racism, misogyny, the female glass ceiling, her natural allies somehow lost sight of how good she is for them, and her “loss of the culture war.”