She and her husband run their own design firm with a third business partner.ĭeVylder expected a low-key event. DeVylder was so excited that she took the day off work - made easier by the fact that she’s her own boss. She and some friends attended an election viewing party at the University of Sydney. DeVylder, as if you couldn't tell from her getup, had voted absentee for Clinton. The photo was snapped on Nov., 8, Election Day (although because of the time difference technically it already was the next day in Australia). Her mouth hangs open in a frown, and you can’t help but imagine hearing her pitiful moan. Her shoulders droop forward, while her head is flung back. Oh, and you can't miss her festive red, white and blue top hat.īut the first thing you notice is her convulsed posture and anguished expression. She even purchased a secondhand gray pinstripe pantsuit just for the occasion. DeVylder’s face pops up probably as the very first image: She’s wearing cobalt blue eyeglasses, pearl earrings and a matching necklace and a homemade Hillary pin. But just Google “crying liberals” and you’ll see it. I tried to get Reuters, the photo's owner, to let us publish the photo in print, to no avail. She’s the face of blue-Democrat America that saw what seemed like a sure claim to the White House slip away in the deep-red rural counties and the Electoral College.ĭeVylder has lived a surreal, virtual double life as her meme of infinite varieties has spread far and wide across the internet. In other words, she has spent the last two months as one of the world's most popular political memes. (Online she was zinged as the “poster child for the mentally insane Hillary snowflakes.”) Yes, DeVylder, 42, who grew up in Council Bluffs and now lives and works on the other side of the globe in Sydney, Australia, has become the international symbol of the inconsolable popular-vote winners of our presidential election. ![]() I’ve seen the look of utter horror at the prospect of living at least four years under the presidency of Donald Trump. I’ve seen the face of dejected Hillary Clinton supporters everywhere.
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