Steve Kornacki is at the “Big Board”this morning, showing how Kamala fell short of Biden even in the blue states.

Hmm…Let’s see, what was the biggest difference between Biden and Kamala? Kornacki doesn’t even mention it. He’s too focused on the multi-racial, multi-ethnic “working class coalition” that Trump built.

That’s not irrelevant. But that coalition is knit together not just by economic issues.

That “working class coalition” didn’t even hear Kamala’s economic proposals. Their ears were plugged by the sexism that the media never did address—no, were responsible for much of it themselves—after Hillary’s loss.

Let’s be honest about it.

It didn’t matter that Kamala ran a “flawless” campaign. It didn’t matter that she had economic proposals and Trump just had “concepts.” It didn’t matter that Trump is a pathological liar and an incompetent human being, let alone will be a dangerous POTUS.

Kamala travelled to the swing states, over and over, working tirelessly. (That old excuse—that Hillary failed to go there at the end—was finally proven BS.) Kamala went there, and went there, and went there. And still the “working class coalition”—composed largely of working class white men, Black men, and Latino men, (and some women, too, although there was still a major gender gap that we’re not even talking about anymore) only saw one thing, and like the countless men whose eyes have glazed over us at parties, they didn’t even hear what she was saying.

The surface fear and anger may have been directed at immigrants or “the economy.” But the deep, impenetrable recesses of our retrograde cultural unconscious saw only a woman—and a glamorous Black woman to boot, with more joy and confidence than we are allotted. And therefore they didn’t have to listen.