It's the 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 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,

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