So, why the continual denial that race was a big factor in the election? by certain liberals even?

[YoungDemCA]

41. Insulting millions of people who ALWAYS vote does not win elections.

Particularly in swing states, and regardless of whether it's deserved. You just don't do that if you want to actually uh, be elected rather than trying to convince everybody how morally upright and non-deplorable you are in comparison to those poor hicks in Flyover Country.

The Wall Street and other corporate connections don't help, either, in our era of rich people's growth at the expense of everyone else - particularly the working class and the poor - yes, disproportionately but by no means exclusively working class and poor people of color. You can't claim to be the "Party of the People" and be taken seriously when all too many people suspect that you're more interested in diversifying elected offices and corporate boardrooms than you are in helping everyone else - "everyone else" (still) disproportionately including women, people of color, and other marginalized people and communities.

We need to do better.