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Music is to Brian Laira Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. 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. 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, brom 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

and Politics at Rutgers University. Thank you both so much for coming on. Welcome both of you

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