Expensive Brita and Kendall and daughters in every single place:
I used to be flawed. Manner flawed. I actually thought the fervour and enthusiasm I noticed in you and so many different ladies throughout the nation would energy Kamala Harris to the presidency.
Alas, it was to not be.
I don’t thoughts being flawed. I’ve been flawed many instances over time. However what kills me is to see your hope —which was my very own hope too—crushed as soon as once more. You thought you wouldn’t get well from the shock of 2016, after which Kamala Harris gave you a life preserver. And now it simply obtained minimize unfastened, setting you again out to sea.
You’ll be able to’t be blamed for asking: What else do we have to do? If not now, when? If voters select a man with this historical past over such an skilled and completed girl, then can we ever break the glass ceiling?
And I wouldn’t blame you for shedding hope and religion in your means to have an effect on constructive change in our society.
I say this as a father, one who cares the world for you: As you have got seen in so many different elements of your lives, the pendulum typically swings, again and again. And generally it simply takes an extremely very long time. Progress is rarely linear, ahead, or fixed.
However rattling. It shouldn’t be this tough both.
So how did we get right here? Whereas it’s not possible to low cost misogyny and race, there’s extra to the reason. Elections at their core are about change versus the established order. Do voters like the way in which issues are going—or not? And in the event that they don’t, they’re inclined to vary horses. Exit polls from final evening suggest that about 7 in 10 voters felt the nation was headed within the flawed route. That’s an not possible headwind to beat for anybody who was a part of the management on the wheel the final 4 years.
Whereas the election of a girl president didn’t occur now, that doesn’t imply you received’t see it occur. It’s, in actual fact, inevitable, even when it feels such a great distance off in the present day.
Sure, I do know you’re going to be down for some time. Depressed. Pissed. Pissed off. The worst half is that you’re so accustomed to these emotions. And as unhealthy because it was eight years in the past, you assumed no less than you’d by no means should really feel them once more so quickly, in the identical method.
Within the close to time period, that is your world, not mine. It’s an evolving world by which I can stand again and provide reward and hope and solidarity—however which you’ll have to navigate in your individual method.
It might be darkish for some time. The divide could appear large and the ache maybe unbearable. However you’ll soldier on and survive. And after the darkness—I do know this from expertise—a therapeutic mild will come once more. And I’ll be there for you.
