我们印度同事说，在印度的印度人（不是在美国的印度人）对特朗普当选美国总统大都非常高兴。因为希拉里当国务卿时候在南亚搞战略平衡，倚重巴基斯坦，冷淡印度，印度人记恨在心。也不知道是不是真的。特朗普的南亚战略会怎么搞呢？

今天午饭的两个印度同事关于甘地展开了激烈的辩论。90后的印度同时认为甘地无所作为，他的非暴力不合作除了让印度人白白牺牲毫无用处，因为二战让英国削弱无法通知才放弃印度；70后印度同事不同意，认为甘地非暴力不合作的三十多年在印度人和英国人心中种下了独立的种子。还真不知道印度人对历史也这么有争议。

这次美国大选，民主党输在几个原来的铁盘州失手，威斯康辛、宾夕法尼亚、俄亥俄，基本上还会有密歇根（结果还没完全出来）。这几个老工业区感觉被现在的新经济和全球化浪潮遗弃，工业区纷纷关张、萎缩，看不到未来的希望。他们怨恨已久，长期感觉被华盛顿遗弃。特朗普提出了直插他们心坎的口号，提出对中国你墨西哥增加关税等主张，让他们大幅转变支持。他们也许心里也知道老工业区的春天不会再来了，但至少选特朗普能让他们的声音到达联邦政府，总比一个完全遗忘他们的政府强。我在维基百科上查了一下，这几个州虽然人均GDP排在中游，但人口增长的比例无一例外排在五十个州的倒数十名。打个比方，这些州就像中国的东三省，感觉完全不在国家发展的视野里，悲观情绪弥漫，一定会希望一个至少嘴上会重视自己的领导人。一方面这是执政党对这些老工业区的衰败有难以克服的劣势，另一方面也是民主党近些年对忽视本来基本盘的老工业工人阶级切身利益的惩罚。

自由派脱口秀主持人Seth Meyers关于选举说的一段话的视频

网页链接，送给还没有从特朗普当选中恢复过来的自由派朋友，也送给觉得现在走上街头的那些才是自由派的的保守派朋友。

"昨天到今天，我也有很多情感，一些悲哀，一些愤怒，一些恐惧。但我也知道这也是很多特朗普支持者感受到的。这些情感让他们做出了他们的选择。认为我的情感比他们的正宗是错的。只有能感受到彼此的感受，我们才是更好的社会。所以我要对特朗普的支持者说：祝贺你们。我真诚地希望他能解决你们的忧虑。我真诚地希望，如果你感到被遗忘了，他再也不会遗忘你们。我也知道，作为一个白人，我所能感到的情感只是LGBTQ社区、非洲裔美国人，拉丁裔美国人，和一些对我们国家很重要的移民社区能感受到的一小部分。希望Trump政府能够对他们充满热情。另外，总的来说，我对特朗普总统充满希望，因为希望总是所能采取的最好路线。……"

"I felt a lot of emotions last night and into today; some sadness, some anger, some fear. But I’m also aware that those are the same emotions a lot of Trump supporters felt; emotions that led them to make their choice. And it would be wrong for me to think my emotions are somehow more authentic than their emotions. We’re always better as a society when we have empathy for one another, so I would just say to those Trump voters, congratulations. I sincerely hope he addresses your concerns. I sincerely hope that if you’ve felt forgotten, he won’t forget you now. As a white man, I also know that any emotions that I’m feeling are likely a fraction of those being felt by the LGBTQ community, African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, and any number of the immigrant communities so vital to our country.

Hopefully the Trump administration will be compassionate to them. And, in general, I am hopeful for President Trump, because hope is always the best possible path to take. And one thing that makes me hopeful is we know from interviews he’s given over the years that he has, at any given point, held every position on every issue. He’s been pro-choice, pro-life, for the Iraq War, against the Iraq War, pretty much his only consistent position has been anti-Rosie O’Donnell. So I’m hopeful that he’s not actually a racist, and that he just used racist rhetoric to court voters. Because when you’re courting someone, you’re always willing to pretend you’re something you’re not. For example, when you first start dating someone, you’ll agree to go apple picking.

You’ll take cute pictures and maybe when you get home you’ll bake a pie together. But once you’re officially a couple, you’re not going apple picking anymore. And when they ask you why, you say, “Because I hate apple picking. I was just pretending I liked it to trick you.” And, let me make it clear, I in no way am trying to say that racism is as bad as apple picking."