The NYT’s Nate Cohn has some explanations about why Dems are losing so many Black and Hispanic voters to Donald Trump. He doesn’t address the working-class/non-college voter component that I raised in a previous post, but it’s still a very good list. …
One of Nate’s explanations isn’t misogyny, the classic all-purpose hectoring explanation that fits so neatly into many (though not all) progressives’ identity-politics view of the world. I gotta say I’m kind of disappointed Obama made/hinted at this overly simplistic misogyny explanation. To be clear: there’s some misogyny at play, but not nearly to the degree the poll numbers suggest for both Black and Hispanic workers. Burrowing down into the survey results, you see a lot of explanations for the shift (such as concerns over the economy, crime, immigration, etc.), not one single explanation, as Cohn notes. Many Dems have foolishly ignored these and other factors in the past — and they’re doing it again now.
