I hear a lot of people, even who skew left, saying "Stop saying it was misogyny and racism!" And while I agree, it wasn't 100% racism and misogyny, when Matt Wolfson of Scranton says the election is between Hitler and Harris, and he just had to go with Hitler, I have a hard time thinking his decision is based on policy, whatever justifications he may offer out of his mouth. A lot of it was racism and misogyny. No one is calling for mass deportation of Canadians or Northern Europeans here illegally.

And I'm in no mood to make excuses for FIFTY FOUR PERCENT of Americans who are in favor of mass deportation but didn't really think it through. For one, a large percentage did think it through, and as Adam Serwer wrote, the cruelty is the point. But what did these people think they were in favor of? How did they think this would go, you just get Samantha from Bewitched to twitch her nose and suddenly millions of people vanish and reappear in their country of origin, no mistakes, no family separations? Did they not hear anything about the children in cages during the first Trump administration? How do they think mass deportation will be a clean and painless enterprise? How do these people dress themselves in the morning? FIFTY FOUR PERCENT!