Yes, the people who are telling you to your face that the rent is too damn high are all secretly racist and sexist:

I can’t say that I have any answers either, but I will offer that I work for an organization that has been on the ground in the 4 most competitive states since 2018, and has never left. We ask people every single day their top issue. I assumed when we ramped up this year, we’d hear Gaza. That as we got closer to the election, it would be abortion or the September Court, or LGBTQ+ rights.

But consistently, across all our states, by a large margin, it was the economy. I think there is a ton of research that can be done into why people think the economy is worse than it is, ways the Dems should restructure their approach to economic issues, **and whether or not people say “the economy” because it’s a lot more palatable than “great replacement theory” or “I’m not letting a woman lead me”. **