California Gov. Gavin Newsom survived the recall election and will remain in office. This ends a process that began in March with the deadline to submit nearly two million legitimate signatures to recall Newsom. While there was some initial doubt that Newsom would survive, it is hardly a surprise. The events leading up to the recall should be the main takeaway from this election — more specifically, the fact that Larry Elder was attacked by a gorilla-masked white woman, and Democrats said nothing.

For all of the public outcries about racism and white supremacy by Democrats over the past two years, their silence about such explicitly racist violence against Elder was deafening. One need not support a particular candidate or his or her ideas to call out bigotry or prejudice. And not only did Democrats not call it out, they incited it. It should be abundantly clear now: Democrats don’t really care about racism against black people.