OPINION: Many in academia refuse to acknowledge that Kamala Harris was a bad candidate who promoted a vision for America out of step with a majority of the country.
The Republican Party should pay insular academics to consult with the Democratic Party on messaging so the GOP can keep winning.
The post-election analysis from our alleged experts has largely consisted of professors calling Trump and his supporters (which include a record number of Latino voters and around half of Latino men) racist, sexist, misogynist, and the usual isms and ists. (Examples here, here, and here).
Meanwhile, it is Donald Trump who is making Cabinet selections while the closest Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff will be is picking out new cabinets for their home in California.
Enter English and black studies Professor Jeffrey McCune at the University of Rochester. He founded the black studies department.
One would think a “black studies” professor would have some keen insights into racial politics, including why Trump won more black voters than any Republican president in nearly half a century. Remember that the Democratic Party was so worried about black males not supporting Harris that it had President Barack Obama scold “the brothers.”
Here is what McCune, who researches “black masculinities,” said about the election at a panel recently, according to the Campus Times.
McCune (pictured) said:
I think that what has not been explored is how the message of the vote, or this election, speaks [to] cultural priorities.
On one hand, the people chose a Hitler-brandishing, anti-immigrant, anti-abortion criminal over a joyful, articulate, well-experienced vice president of the United States. On the other hand, and probably a bigger problem for me, and not the one that most people are thinking about, is the way that folks said women’s rights, queer rights, and black freed, Latinx justice, was less important than a one-dollar decrease in bread, Christian dogma, mass de-nationalism, and other communited [word unclear] to capital gains and America’s imagining of a homogenous America.
I must have missed the campaign rally where Trump was waving around Hitler, which is what “brandishing” means. While I also wish Trump was “anti-abortion,” the reality is he largely backed away from the issue this time around.
Also, does anyone believe Harris was “articulate”? Maybe when CBS News does a good job editing down her answers to make sense.
Why Harris failed, and this is just a thought, is she largely centered her campaign outreach on college-educated liberal women who were already going to vote for her. If only New York University of Wellesley College voted in the election, she would have run away with it. She also tried to appeal to women’s unnatural desires to kill their own children or take drugs to look like a man.
Meanwhile, Trump went on male-oriented podcasts, like the Joe Rogan’s show, Theo Von, and others, on the advice of his son, Barron Trump.
He also appealed to the natural and rightly ordered desires of men to provide and protect, focusing on issues such as crime, the economy, and the harms of illegal immigration.
On cultural issues such as transgenderism, he ran powerful ads about men in women’s prisons.
But for the sake of a booming economy, safer cities, and closed borders, please Professor McCune, keep telling the Democrats to lean in on males in girls’ locker rooms and using unpopular words like “Latinx.”
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