From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Thursday, November 14th.

Well, since Election Day, if you've been listening, you've been hearing us center different potential reasons on different days

for Donald Trump's win and Kamala Harris's defeat. It'll be time to end this series soon

and just move on to watching the Trump administration govern. We'll talk about that in some of today's show,

but there are all these reasons that need to be discussed for the outcome

of the election, because every Western Party that saw pandemic inflation on their watch

has gotten thumped in their next election, because Biden dropped out too late, leaving Harris

too little time to introduce herself to voters, because the racism and

sexism tax on a black and South Asian woman candidate was too steep to overcome.

That's the one we're going to talk about now.

Because the Democratic Party is too identified with censorious and extreme-sounding identity

politics.

Because the Democrats fail to offer a true populist economic alternative

to Trump's economic populism on the cost of living. Yesterday we talked about the role of the

so-called manosphere, you know, brome media platforms and the rights strong presence there. But now we

will focus on the role that racism and sexism played in the

election, even outside those platforms. The idea that the racism and sexism tax on a black

and South Asian woman candidate, explicit or unintentional bias, was too steep to overcome.

We have two guests for this, Nadir Goff, Associate Culture

Writer at Slate, who has an article called There's a lot of fighting over why Harris lost, but everyone

seems to want to avoid this explanation. And Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American

Women in Politics at Rutgers University. Thank you both so much for coming

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