ag, We're heading to QR for two weeks starting Monday. It'll be interesting to discuss the situation in the US, particularly The Donald, with Mexicans, and to watch the spin on the noticias on TV. You probably get a chance to rub elbows with more important folks than I do. I haven't been to DF in ten years, but I do visit the Mexican coastal areas about once a year and always enjoy discussions of politics with Mexicans. Are they talking much about the US election this summer? My guess is that Trump probably makes the ruling class in Mexico a little nervous.
Do not overestimate how close I am to important people. I just teach their kids
Still, let me try...
Not a little. There is strong revulsion. Normally, my circle is a bit special: should I say, it is on the
malinchista end of the technoratic spectrum (I mean,
my kind of a crowd
). But at this point, I think, Trump has achieved the impossible: there is, literally, no disagreement on how horrible he would be between the right and the left here. If anything, the revulsion in the usual americophile circles is stronger.
Another group that is positively terrified is the Anglo-Mexican community. From the banter at the HM Birthday garage sale at the Anglican church here (a rather wealthy selection of people, to put it mildly), you would have thought you are at a Manhattan Democratic Party meeting. And, of course, Americans I know here go into "do not blame me, but I am awfully sorry" mode before even being challenged.
I do not watch TV, though, so cannot really tell you much about that.
