A Reckoning for the Modi Democrats
Liberal Indian American politicians who have received donations from Hindu nationalists are facing new pressure to denounce the Modi government. Donald Trump and Narendra Modi at the Howdy, Modi! event in Houston, Texas, on September 22, 2019 (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Few places better demonstrate the ongoing demographic and political transformation of Texas than Fort Bend County. Located right outside of Houston, it is one of the most diverse parts of the country, with burgeoning immigrant communities and a population that is one quarter Hispanic and one fifth Asian. Churches sit next to synagogues, and mosques next to mandirs. And if there were a prototype for the Trump-era Democrat, it would have been Sri Preston Kulkarni, who ran for Congress in 2018 and 2020 for Texasâs Twenty-second District, which includes the vast majority of Fort Bend County.