Puja Thakkar was already scheduled to attend Kamala Harris’s inauguration on January 20 in Washington. A doctor in Danville (California), she obtained two tickets, through an elected representative in Congress, to be present in front of the Capitol. One for her, the other for her 12-year-old daughter, with whom she would share a historical and personal moment as well. Coming from an Indian family living in Berkeley, like Kamala Harris’s mother in the 1970s, the doctor runs a clinic that employs around fifty employees and tears come to her eyes thinking about the energy she had to deploy to establish yourself in a predominantly male business world.
The doctor had given his day to the employees to encourage them to vote. The afternoon of Tuesday, November 5, was a collapse. “I’m going to sound very naive and stupid, but I really thought Kamala was going to win. » The anger is evident in his voice. “At that moment I told myself that maybe a white woman would have won. But not. There was Hillary Clinton. So what this result translates is that anyone is better than a woman. A criminal is better than a woman! »
For Democratic women, the impact of Donald Trump’s re-election was violent. like a “scoundrel” How could he have won? A man who had said during the campaign that “protect women, whether they like it or not” ? With the support of 74 million voters? “I don’t trust the Americans anymore. “I don’t know any Trump supporters, I don’t know who they are, but I don’t want to meet them.” says Holly Marie, a Washington retiree who just got out of two days of“hibernation” without talking to anyone or watching the news. “It remains a mystery to me why there are so many Trump supporters. »
Puja Thakkar doesn’t understand it either. He can’t explain how people who are at risk of cuts to health insurance or social services voted for the billionaire. One of his employees, whose daughter was pregnant at age 16, came to inform him that she had voted for Trump. “I said, ‘Congratulations.’ What could I say?” Another, of Mexican origin, lamented that she no longer knew how to talk to her son, a Trump fan, when there are undocumented immigrants in her family. “All this has no rationality”, laments the doctor, showing a meme that circulates on social networks. We see a young man wearing a t-shirt. “Latinos for Trump” who holds a sign: “Please deport my mom!” » (“Please deport my mother!”).
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