The Rise of the Radical Moms

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Women across the U.S. found themselves suddenly drawn to politics after the shock election of Donald Trump four years ago. On this week’s podcast, Ryan Grim speaks to three such women: Candace Valenzuela and Julie Oliver in Texas, and Annie Weaver in Pennsylvania, about how that day changed their lives and the course it set them on over the last four years.

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0:00.0	My goodness, I did not see so much of this coming.
0:05.0	Secretary Clinton's top surrogate say they're still confident that she has a path to 270,
0:11.4	but Florida making everyone a little bit more jittery than they had anticipated.
0:15.5	I was suburban mom.
0:19.5	We're talking about so many of them right now.
0:22.7	You know, I had a one-year-old and I was watching the election happening.
0:28.0	In Virginia, in Colorado, in New Mexico, we've got Donald Trump prevailing,
0:32.4	according to NBC News Projections, Donald Trump prevailing in North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida.
0:39.0	I need to interrupt with another one.
0:40.8	Trump wins Iowa.
0:43.0	I didn't think that the Republicans that I knew had the capacity to vote for someone like him.
0:48.8	And I found myself like many people of color just flabbergasted that day after the election.
0:58.0	I'm Ryan Grimm.
1:06.6	Welcome to Deconstructed.
1:08.9	You're listening to the voice of Candice Falenswela, a mom from suburban Texas.
1:13.9	Like a lot of women across America, the events of November 8, 2016 changed her political
1:19.9	world.
1:20.9	I dropped off my son at his daycare and a lot of the folks there were people of color.
1:28.6	They were not inclined to talk about politics, but you can see it on their faces.
1:34.2	And then that day, I was taking a little time off of work because my husband had this huge
1:39.6	work dinner that night and I was going to get my hair done that morning and I went to
1:43.1	a Dominican hair salon.
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