| You’ve probably heard the news: The resistance is dead. Its demise was predicted even before Donald Trump’s victory on November 5. In January, Ian Bassin, the founder of Protect Democracy, told Politico that if Trump were to win a second term, “the civil-society, pro-democracy, grassroots movement will feel incredibly defeated and deflated.” Sure enough, days after Trump’s win, at a rally in Washington held by the Women’s March, a woman told the New York Times, “I didn’t even want to come down — I was on the metro and I’m like, you know what? This might actually make us feel worse. Why bother, especially now?” Puck’s Dylan Byers wrote that the liberal-left media was bailing on its anti-Trump coverage in an article titled “The #Resistance Is Futile.” And on Saturday Night Live, comedian Bill Burr crowed, “Alright ladies, you’re 0 and 2 against this guy,” suggesting that future female presidential candidates should ditch the pantsuits and learn to “whore it up a little.” |
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