General Discussion

trying to understand all those disaffected white men in diners, and we believed them when they told us they felt economically insecure. Then we flagellated ourselves for years for letting them feel that way because, we concluded, that was why we lost.

That wasn't why we lost. They didn't vote for trump because they felt economically insecure.

It looks like this time we're going to flagellate ourselves because MSNBC used to say Latinx, and Hispanics hate illegal immigration (though the ones we lost voted for the guy who trashed the bipartisan bill that would have slashed illegal immigration.)

We didn't lose them over Latinx or illegal immigration. We lost them because we ran a woman of color.

The only lesson here, and it's difficult to face, is that a percentage of each group of our own perceived allies, including women, Black men, and Hispanics, are racist and sexist.