In another world, the Women's March on Jan 18 would be one of the great events of the American political calendar. It's self-destruction is one of the biggest tragedies of the Trump era "resistance"
It blew up in a cloud of social justice and fractious identity politics. I would love to read a good thing about it, too
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That is my high level understanding as well. resistance turned into a bunch of leftest grift. With no strong identity or figures to rally around.
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I think a charitable way to put it is that the movement went from zero to the biggest thing in American politics, and no one had the capacity to credibly stand at the head of it, or to make people not bicker and infight
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It sort of looked inevitable to me, just based on how this movement was organized. After reading
@zeynep ‘s book and applying it to scoring political movements in the internet era, it looked like a flashmob not a well-organized mvmnt.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Good article in the Post this week. “Nobody needs another pink hat” https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-womens-march-sparked-a-resistance-three-years-later-its-a-movement-struggling-to-find-relevance/2020/01/11/344ccf22-3323-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html …
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