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While much of the nation is reeling from the disappointment of Donald Trump’s win over VP Kamala Harris, MSNBC’s Joy Reid is keeping it real about how we got here. Over the last few months, there was far too much focus on the Black vote and how it will impact the election. Well, exit polls show that the Black vote was as consistent as it has been in the last handful of election cycles. We didn’t win it for Trump. Mathematically, we never had the numbers to win it for Trump. Who did have the numbers — who always have the numbers — were white people, who roughly made up 60% of the electorate. 

Now, white men voted how they would be expected to vote. Trump represents whiteness and patriarchy, so we all knew how that was going to go. White women also voted how they also vote, but with Trump being the misogynistic, abortion-propagandizing, p-ssy-grabber-in-chief that he is, it’s still baffling how any woman, including white women, could find him so appealing.

Reid addressed this issue while discussing white women voters in North Carolina, who she suggested wouldn’t vote for Harris simply because she isn’t white.

“Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White women voters did not,” Reid said Wednesday during MSNBC’s post-election coverage. “That is what it appears happened in that state, is that if you can’t flip enough White women — and we’ve talked about this on this set numerous times, is that you have a state where you’ve got a 6-week abortion or a 12-week abortion. It’s a state where women lost their reproductive rights, where there was a very heavy push to get women to focus on not putting in place, you know, re-electing putting back into the White House the person who was responsible for taking those rights away. And restoring them.”

“But that message obviously was not enough to get enough White women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman,” Reid continued. “This will be the second opportunity that White women in this country have to change the way that they interact with the patriarchy.”

According to exit polls, 53% of white women voters cast their ballots for Trump. Again, it was to be expected, but it’s still a damn shame.

See how social media is reacting to Reid’s statements below.