Remember the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets when Donald Trump was first elected in 2017? I can’t forget the pink cat hat and the constant shriek.
My question now is where did they go?
We’ve been told for years that Trump 2.0 will be worse than the original. He revealed his true colors on January 6th. This time he will end democracy once and for all. Apparently, their most loyal followers didn’t even buy it. Only a few showed up to protest.
Yesterday, I went to the Women’s March in Washington DC. This event has now been renamed “The People’s March.”
I think it’s safe to say that Kamala’s “joy” has left the building.
Full video will be released this week! pic.twitter.com/kLGwY9g3Au
— Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) January 19, 2025
What started as the Women’s March in 2017 has become the People’s March this week. Not very feminist, right? But the difference wasn’t just in name. As NPR reported, few This time’s participants. The dates of the Women’s March were: 470,000 Only “a few thousand” people took part in the People’s March, which was packed with demonstrators and celebrity guests. (Related: Sign up for the Daily Caller newsletter, Cultured)
So what does that give? Did they not believe the hype about Hitler returning to the White House? Or maybe they just didn’t want to show up in the cold?
The truth is probably somewhere in between. They may still believe, but their political will is broken. They know #resistance is futile. They dedicated the last eight years of their lives to this political movement, and after all their self-inflicted suffering, they had nothing to show for it. This is enough to break a strong will, let alone a woman crying on TikTok because someone accidentally called her “she.” They simply accepted their fate.
Today, America wakes up to a new dawn. And the resistance, which once seemed invincible, was finally defeated.
