on sexism at the highest level

I’ve been absorbing a lot of words about Trump’s victory, and I want to add something for the historical record: It’s the sexism, stupid.

There are, I think, many reasons why Harris lost — but I would bet a lot of money that a gender-swapped “Kam Harris”, a mixed-race lawyer from, say, North Carolina, would have run Trump at least as close as Trump ran Biden in 2020 — and I think good old Kam, who was a four-star college recruit at receiver and cornerback, might have just won the whole thing outright. (Remember Kam’s pick-six when he was at Ohio State? What a play! I’d vote for that guy.)

This is sexism, it’s deep misogyny: we know this. There are lots of other reasons why Harris lost (ask me about my kayfabe theory for keeping incumbent parties in power), but Trump has won twice against women, and lost to a dude who is turning out to be pretty lame. This is not just sexism — but vicious sexism sure has helped the Republicans over the last eight years.