Summary
Gender bias played a significant role in Kamala Harrisās defeat, with many votersāoften womenāexpressing doubts about whether āAmerica is ready for a female president.ā
Some said they ācouldnāt see her in the chair,ā or questioned if a woman could lead, with one even remarking, āyou donāt see women building skyscrapers.ā Though some voters were open to persuasion, this often became a red line.
Oliver Hall, a Harris campaign volunteer, found that economic concerns, particularly inflation, also drove voters to Donald Trump, despite low unemployment and wage growth touted by Democrats.
Harris was viewed in conflicting ways, seen as both too tough and too lenient on crime, as well as ineffective yet overly tied to Bidenās administration.
Ultimately, Hall believes that Trumpās unique appeal and influence overshadowed Harrisās campaign efforts.
I havenāt heard of any republican threat to raise and kill everyone, but a lot are unhinged and Iām sure it happens. But itās not a central platform of the Republicans, while being condescending of working class men is a central campaign point of the democrats, in fact it was so bad that black and Hispanic men showed up in record numbers to vote for Trump
I mean, no offense but the fact that you havenāt heard this just might mean youāre deep inside an echo chamber. Itās hard to have an exact measure of these thing, but Republican threats and celebrations of violence and sexual assault are at least as central to their partyās platform as being opposed to bigotry is to the Democrats partyās from where Iām sitting.
And Iām not sure why you think being opposed to bigotry is an attack on working class men. Like, if we want to talk about the working class and poor people, letās talk about the fact that transgender people are more likely than the average American to be living in poverty because of the discrimination they fave.
I will say thatās an easy to miss fact because society in general doesnāt like to platform working class people because theyāre not as eloquent or pretty and the Dems tend to behave the same way, so we hear more about wealthy celebrity members of queer communities and other marginalized groups. At the end of the day, tho, if you do really care about the working class you need to care about transphobic discrimination (among all the other kinds of discrimination) too, because it is absolutely a tool the capitalist class wields to keep us divided and oppressed.