Why the Women’s March on Washington has already failed
Demonstrations serve a useful function in a democracy — but only when they have clarity of purpose. That is not the case with the Women’s March on Washington, which will be held in Washington, D.C., the day after Donald Trump is sworn in. Instead the march is shaping up to be a feel-good exercise in search of a cause. And if it fizzles and fails, it’ll make it harder, not easier, to fight genuine rights violations under the Trump presidency.
A must read.
This expresses my ambivalent feelings about this march better than I ever could. We are no longer going to DC, and it looks like little L is not going to the local March either (wearing his “pantsuit nation” onesie), and I will stay with him – potential teargas is not good for babies (and I keep thinking of that Battleship Potemkin scene). There is way more work ahead, and this march can only make it more difficult.
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