It’ll be interesting to see what kind of turnout the third annual Women’s March can muster tomorrow. But it’s safe to say it won’t be anything like the millions who showed up in Capitol Hill after Trump’s inauguration in a collective “yuck,” writes Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia. Fear and loathing of Trump is not sufficient to sustain a mass movement.
The Women’s March has been roiled in controversy, as its organizers and members have been unable to set aside their political disagreements and personality conflicts and coalesce around on a common agenda. In the last few years, it has fielded complaints of anti-Semitism, too much whiteness, insufficient wokeness, and more.
It would be a mistake to dismiss such problems as mere teething pains. When women confront genuine and endemic discrimination, they are able to set aside their differences and come together. That’s what happened in Kerala, India, this month when five million women formed a 385-mile human chain to protest gender discrimination at a temple that bans menstruating-age women.
That American women can’t seem to do the same might suggest that their collective feeling of oppression is not the stuff of a mass movement.
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