Women's March becomes a goose step

The first Women’s March, in January 2017, was a giant, boisterous success. President Trump had just been inaugurated, and plenty of people were angry enough to take to the streets. They were “the Resistance,” ready to fight Trump and his new administration. Four of the march leaders, Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, Carmen Perez, and the pseudonymous Bob Bland, would become famous. An estimated 4,157,894 people participated in 653 marches across America, including between half a million to a million people in Washington, D.C., alone. It was the biggest single-day demonstration in America ever.

In 2019, it’s a different story. Left-liberal anger over the Trump presidency remains strong. But the Women’s March is in disarray, a darkened but diminished shadow of what it was only two years ago. Only an estimated 665,324-735,978 people attended this year’s demonstrations. Perhaps thankfully, our Facebook feeds weren’t filled with smiling women wearing pink hats and holding clever signs.

Something had happened.

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