So it’s the 2nd annual women’s march. In 2017 it flooded all media. This year barely a ripple. And I see it’s dissolved into internecine controversy about hats and a why-isn’t-it-bigger story about Trump’s magazine spanking. There’s a lesson here, but damned if I know what it is
I think the narrative here is fundamentally weaker. There is a central character (“woman”) and an energy (which shows up as takedowns of specific men, like Weinstein, or institutions), but no overall plot. The Tea Party had a story (constitutional originalism initially).
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Tell me why you think "constitutional originalism" is a plot, but women's rights is not.
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And note, to take the NYT as an example, there’s been endless op-eds, exposes, coverage. The only thing missing has been a grand narrative. Without that, there’s no way to trace diff between the 2017 and 2018 other than stats of number of women running, number of men taken down
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