Big Trump protests stump the Donald’s White House
Size is a simple handle for an unsubtle mind, so Donald Trump would have been unnerved by the scale of protests against him, writes Francis Wilkinson
Washington — The White House can’t get over the disparity between Donald Trump’s modest inaugural crowd on Friday and the massive protests that took place the next day. But what matters most is not how the numbers of marchers across America exceeded the numbers celebrating the inauguration — what matters, now and over the long term, is how those protesting bodies challenged the words of Trump’s inaugural address, and neutered them. Millions of Americans took to the streets for a women’s march that was less about gender politics and more about broad defiance of Trump’s new order. They turned out in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and Washington DC, and also in places like Boise, Idaho, and Anchorage, Alaska. Trump being Trump would probably have been unnerved by the size of the protests: size is a simple handle for an unsubtle mind. But White House strategist Steve Bannon and shrewder members of the Trump team surely grasped that the protests had just obliterated an inaugural ...
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