I have been thinking a lot about the US elections and about the fact that Donald Trump has been voted back into power, after all that he has said and done. And I have seen plenty of analysis about how the cost of living was just too much, and how the Democrats kept rubbing irrelevant issues in voters’ faces. But the number I keep thinking about is that over ninety percent of black women who voted cast their vote for the Democrats. If any demographic can claim to have been hammered by the cost of living in the USA, then it’s them. They are at the core of the country’s working class and they know how bad the USA can get on every social and political and economic level. And if they aren’t part of the popular revolt against the incumbent government - if they voted overwhelmingly to retain it, believing Trump would be worse - that surely tells us something, right? Because if anyone can be said to be the voice of the popular revolt, then it is a demographic that consistently experiences some of the very worst harm that the US has to offer. Yet when it comes to the political imagination in the US, black women don’t seem to count as the working class. And that says everything, I think, about whose voices matter and whose don’t.