We had a woman at the top of the democratic ticket for the first time. We had a billionaire at the top of the republican ticket who had a discourse of strong populism. Also in this campaign we saw differences from campaigns in the near past in that sex and race entered into the discourse in new and different ways. Sexism and racism in particular were overtly discussed by candidates in ways that were perpetrated by candidates in ways we had not seen in previous campaigns. Thats not to say previous campaigns did not have sexism and racism, but rarely did we hear those comments coming from the candidates themselves. In part, due to the campaign and how gender and race played into the campaign, we expect gender and race to play large roles in the 45th president ial administration. We already see, for example in terms of policy, donald trump promising to make an executive order to build a wall along the u. S. Mexican border. We also saw responses from Civil Society with regard to gender and