Recently, I wrote about why Elizabeth Warren lost the race for the Democratic nomination. My thesis? Warren failed to consolidate the progressive vote, and then her pivot to the center didn’t work. And even had she done these things, she’d have quickly run into problems winning among voters of color, especially black voters. Many Warren supporters, by contrast, cite misogyny as the major factor in her loss. They think the U.S.’s culture of misogyny cost Warren the win.

I didn’t mention misogyny in my own post. But not because I forgot about it or think it’s not important. I didn’t, and it is. I think it operated as an important background force rather than as a major cause of her loss. And getting at these things required more space and time than the previous post offered.

So, let that space and time be here and now.

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