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To the editor:
I know political pundits and journalists want to keep the public entertained to keep their jobs, but do we have to constantly hear the infinite number of second guesses and Monday-morning-quarterbacking about why Kamala Harris lost the election to an ignorant, immoral, racist, misogynist, Donald Trump?
In this case it was not just “the economy, stupid,” as James Carville warned years ago. The simple answer to why Harris lost the election is that half, if not a majority, of adults in our nation are racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic. Kamala Harris is a black woman with foreign roots, so she fits squarely into major prejudices that prevent very qualified people from gaining respect and winning national elections. No woman, especially a black woman, would have beaten Donald Trump in this presidential election.
Michael J. Gorman
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