Eugene Robinson: "Trump inspired a movement, all right"

[kpete]

It matters that the crowd for the Women’s March on Washington was far bigger than that for President Trump’s inauguration. The new president often boasts of having started a great movement. Let it be the one that was born with Saturday’s massive protests.

If size is important, and apparently to Trump it is, there was no contest. The Metro transit system recorded 1,001,613 trips on the day of the protest, the second-heaviest ridership in history — surpassed only by ridership for President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009. By contrast, just 570,557 trips were taken Friday, when Trump took the oath of office.

Those are the true facts, not the “alternative” ones the administration wants you to believe. A president obsessed with winning began his term by losing.

Among all the news of the past few days, I begin with crowd size because Saturday’s rallies and marches, in cities across the nation, were simply unprecedented. Perhaps half a million demonstrators, many wearing pink hats, filled the streets of Washington. Protests in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles also drew crowds measured in the hundreds of thousands, and there were big anti-Trump gatherings in Denver, Boston, Atlanta, Austin, San Antonio and other cities in the United States and around the world.

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The administration will argue that, after a bitterly divisive campaign, it is time for the nation to come together behind the new president. No, it is not. We are in the midst of a political realignment that is nowhere near complete, and it is more important than ever that progressive voices make themselves heard.


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[global1]

1. The Administration May Argue That It Is Time To Come Together.....

but it is doing nothing to bring the nation together. Instead - it is doing everything it can to further divide this nation and that spells disaster.

Unless Trump realizes that and changes his ways - he will drive a wedge into this nation that will ultimately make him fail bigly.

Unfortunately his ego won't let him succeed. He is so insecure that he is incapable to like himself and as a result he has to surround himself with toadies that he bullies into keep reminding himself that he is great.

This might work for a little while but it will ultimately catch up with him and those same toadies will turn on him. They will either realize that he is a sick man or a danger to himself and the country - and they will commit him or abandon him.

I'm hoping his family grasps the reality of this situation and works to help him. If they continue to let him play to his fantasies - we're all in trouble.

How could we have let this happen to us?

[ProfessorGAC]

3. The Inauguration Speech Proves Your Point

That was hardly a conciliatory tone. He basically gave the middle finger to anybody who didn't vote for him. And that's around 10 million more people than those who did.

[Martin Eden]

2. When Trump won the election I overindulged in comfort food

The subsequent movement involved several unpleasant trips to my non gold-plated throne.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Where you cloned a whole lot of Trumps

[Martin Eden]

9. Just like I did with GW:

Here I sit, cheeks a-flexin
Just gave birth to another Texan

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. The Nazi-In-Chief also inspired a "movement" on my part...a bowel movement to commemorate Pres. Tiny Hands' election...

Hopefully, though, we will "dump" him via impeachment!! That's called followin' the "constitution"!!

[Staph]

5. The Metro ridership statistics hide another truth.

I rode the Metro to the Match. But I ended up taking a cab back to my hotel, because the wait at every downtown station was more than an hour. This old lady couldn't stand that long at the end of that amazing day!

[Demsrule86]

7. I hear you.

We stayed at Kellogg Conference center in Gallaudet University...school for the deaf...wonderful place. They had a shuttle to a nearby metro station...but Marta was pretty much overwhelmed so we walked the two miles or so to the venue. We got there just before 9:00 AM. We were penned in...and it was starting to be scary...speakers were telling people on the verge of panic to stand still. There were jut too many of us. But the police opened the gates...there were kids and handicapped in the crowd...come on DC. They had locked up the Porto potties. But people said they would merely cut the locks so they opened them...it was peaceful and hopeful...and we marched to the White House...they say Trump heard us. He had been at a prayer breakfast and was in the White House too...it was inspirational...and it happened everywhere...sister marches in all 50 states, overseas and even Antarctica! My sis and her kids and friends went to Atlanta, my youngest went to Pittsburgh (we live in Ohio near Pittsburgh). Everyone I know went somewhere. We sent a message...now onto the midterms. We will stop the evil GOP and save our country from the fascist right. We took an umber back to the hotel...even the young one (daughter said she would sleep on the street if she had to walk back to the hotel).

[Demsrule86]

6. I was there...it was awesome...

I will never come together with Trump...not my president...in fact illegitimate. I am home now and energized ...going to work on midterms...We must stop him.