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She seems fun, but her outfit screams: “hippie girl who found her mom’s old ballroom gown.” Nothing wrong with that, but this is the Mother of Harlots who plans to be summoning demons. What if you call up Beelzebub and he’s like: “Really? I’m going to tear you to shreds just for wearing that Marge Simpson necklace.”
This was pre-WWI. Not sure how anti-semitism compared in Germany and France during this era, but there was plenty of anti-semitism in France as demonstrated by the riots during the Dreyfus Affair.
This was a “Fuck YOU, in particular” sent right at Harris.
hmm… I think a “fuck you” would be if people went to the polls and wrote in someone else. This was more of a “meh” sent right at Harris… they couldn’t even be bothered to vote.
I firmly believe it was a combination of her race and male voters’ unwillingness to vote for a woman under any circumstances.
I suspect that this played a large part, but the tricky thing is: how do we confirm this? We can’t just poll people, bc they’ll rarely admit it. We can’t compare the performance of congressional candidates because people likely hold the presidency to a different standard. To make things even more complicated, Harris is mixed-race - and Americans are notoriously bad at studying that. And what do we do with the results of these studies? Clearly we still want to nominate qualified people regardless of gender or race.
Political scientists and historians will spend years analyzing the causes and significance of this election. My focus is more immediate. Although the data are imperfect and incomplete, I will offer preliminary answers…
To his credit, the writer explicitly warns us that this is a hot take and is almost certainly wrong.