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The new resistance versus Trump’s alternative facts
There were many predications about what a Donald Trump presidency might spawn — but very few expected it to be the spark for a global movement against misogyny, bigotry and sexism. Or that the symbol of the new resistance would be a knitted pink “pussy hat”, a comment on Trump’s shocking boast — on leaked video from 2005 — that he grabbed women by the genitals when he felt the urge. Or that the first controversy of the Trump presidency would be over the size of the crowds at his inauguration and those at the women’s marches. Confronted with aerial photographic evidence that his crowd was far smaller than that which inaugurated Barack Obama, Trump’s entourage introduced a new phrase to the political lexicon: “alternative facts”.
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