My wife correctly tells me that post election analysts that have nothing to say about the negative impact of racism, misogyny, and transphobia on Harris’ vote and the election’s outcome should go back to the drawing board.

At every Trump rally the most unapologetic expressions of each made their way out of Trump’s vile mouth and his audience, no surprise, reveled in them. Nor is there any reason to think that they didn’t find their way into the election’s outcome. To believe otherwise strikes me as a form of self gaslighting. And who needs that at this moment.

Moreover,, each — racism, misogyny, and transphobia — will be part of the talking points and policies of the Trump White House and Republican controlled Congress next year.

Which brings me to a simple proposition that has historical precedent. If we don’t march together, if we don’t challenge racism, misogyny and transphobia together, we will eventually fall behind together, not at the same time, not in the same way, and not to the same degree, but make no mistake none of us will live in a world of equality, justice, fairness, and peace that each of us aspires to.

Now is not the time to retreat into narrow ways of politically thinking and acting. Just as it was necessary to assemble a broad cross class people’s coalition this fall if we had any hope of defeating Trump and Trumpism, it is no less necessary in the year ahead. Only a broad and diverse coalition, including the Democratic Party and its leaders, will slow down and, hopefully, in the end, defeat the broad scale assault on our living standards and rights that is surely on its way.

Election analysis should be less a blame game and more a sober effort to understand the many layers of a complex and many leveled process that in the end left a many layered people’s coalition and many of its candidates on the losing end of an election that will have great consequences for our country and world.

Machiavelli: ‘There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things’.

Now is not the time to retreat into narrow ways of politically thinking and acting. Just as it was necessary to assemble a broad cross class people’s coalition this fall if we had any hope of defeating Trump and Trumpism, it is no less necessary in the year ahead. Only a broad and diverse coalition, including the Democratic Party and its leaders, will slow down and, hopefully, in the end, defeat the broad scale assault on our living standards and rights that is surely on its way.