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Trump inspired a movement, all right
Topic Started: Jan 24 2017, 07:42 AM (335 Views)
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Posted ImageGroups gather for the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday. (Amanda Voisard/For The Washington Post)

It matters that the crowd for the Women’s March on Washington was far bigger than that for President Trump’s inauguration. The new president often boasts of having started a great movement. Let it be the one that was born with Saturday’s massive protests.

If size is important, and apparently to Trump it is, there was no contest. The Metro transit system recorded 1,001,613 trips on the day of the protest, the second-heaviest ridership in history — surpassed only by ridership for President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009. By contrast, just 570,557 trips were taken Friday, when Trump took the oath of office.

Those are the true facts, not the “alternative” ones the administration wants you to believe. A president obsessed with winning began his term by losing.

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But whether Trump’s ostentatious pique about the not-so-historic size of his inauguration crowd is real or feigned, the fact that so many more people came to town to protest Trump’s presidency than to celebrate it is important. The new administration ignores the passion we saw on Saturday at its own peril.

Remember that the tea party movement looked at first like nothing more than a rowdy, incoherent bunch of sore losers — until it swept Democrats out of power in the House in the 2010 midterm elections.

I covered some of those early tea party rallies, and I saw similar levels of energy and engagement — and, yes, anger — at the Women’s March. The millions who participated nationwide now constitute the kind of broad-based network that can be harnessed into effective political action. The Trump administration can haughtily dismiss the dissenters by saying, as the Obama administration once did, that elections have consequences. But the next election is right around the corner.


Time will tell.
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Jan 24 2017, 07:44 AM

Time will tell.
Time will tell if the angry hags can ....

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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence.
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Didn't the leftist Madonna use her sexuality to advance her career. Suddenly, the topic is a taboo for her.
Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind.
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