It’s been more than two months since Nov. 8, and the Left still has not accepted the fact that Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.
Many liberals are excusing themselves from the rules of decorum when the subject of Trump or his followers comes up. They tweet awful and offensive things, usually laced with the worst language. They lash out in public, as Meryl Streep did with her preachy lecture at the Golden Globes about the president-elect.
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Now, they’re planning a series of protests around Trump’s inauguration. More than 100,000 people are expected at a Women’s March on Washington the day after the Jan. 20 swearing-in of Trump. In New York, Mark Ruffalo, Alec Baldwin, and Michael Moore have organized a guys’ march, with radical green groups and MoveOn to protest outside Trump Tower on the eve of the inauguration.
In the words of actress Patricia Arquette, the stars will be out in force to let Trump attendees know they are concerned about “rollbacks of any kind: for civil rights, for women, for equal pay, for prison reform. It’s very concerning.”
America Ferrara, Cher, Chelsea Handler, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Frances McDormand, Julianne Moore, Katy Perry, and Amy Schumer — who still has failed to keep her promise to leave the country — also are among those expected to turn up and hijack the women’s march.
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The organizers of the “march for women” (which hardly represents all women) said they hope the event sends a “bold message” on Trump’s first full day as president. They want the world to know “women’s rights are human rights” and that they will “stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us,” according to their website.
It’s difficult to take the protest events seriously when so many opportunist celebrities will be in attendance to take attention away from the intended subjects and hog it for themselves — including celebrities like Chelsea Handler.
So upset was she at Trump’s surprise victory in November that she wrote a piece last month attempting to shame women who voted for him. It was “one of the saddest things about Nov. 8 that Trump, who was thought to be way behind Hillary Clinton in polling among women, actually edged Clinton among women,” she wrote.
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“Hillary Clinton — arguably the mostly qualified presidential candidate in modern American history — was standing right there in her pleated pantsuit waiting to lift America up out of its 240-year ‘winning streak’ of male dominance and patriarchy,” Handler wrote, 100 percent self-servingly, of course.
Will Handler now use her place at the march to shame more women about the way they voted?
Cher, another Hillary fan, has not fully processed the Trump victory, either. The singer, who will also attend the march, unleashed an ALL-CAPS Twitterstorm touting the march last week.
“JOIN MARCH IN D.C.,2PROTEST TRUMP REGIME‼️2 PROTEST IN YOUR OWN HOME…,” the singer wrote. “TURN ON TV,AND AS TRUMPS INAUGURAL STARTS… TURN TV OFF #TURNHIMOFF.”
And: “GUESS TRUMP & REPUBLICANS DECIDED 2 REPEAL& DESTROY??’???’? ACA.trump LIED ABOUT EVERY SINGLE THING HE SAID HED KEEP. MEDICARE & MEDICAID IS NXT??’???’?,” she added.
Even Trump critic and television host Piers Morgan got annoyed by Cher’s incessant whining.
“Oh pipe down @cher, you absurd specimen,” he tweeted to her. “Can the media just boycott Trump-loathing celebrities now?”
A boycott may not be sustainable at this point, but it should be made abundantly clear that these women do not speak for all women of America. Yes, it will make history when a woman is one day elected president. But Hillary Clinton was far from the right person.
CNN exit polls found that more than 52 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump, and polling shows it had little to do with the Russians and much to do with Clinton’s incompetent response to Benghazi, careless disregard for national security demonstrated by the use of a private server, and emails that emerged over the course of numerous investigations into her dealings that showed the former secretary of state to say one thing in public and another in private.
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Organizers insist the women’s march is not an anti-Trump rally — which seems odd, given the celebrity guest list and their tone.
Now, some of these social groups are even spatting. Lena Gardner, co-founder of the Unitarian Universalist’s Black Lives Matter group in Minneapolis, told NPR she thinks the march is “centered around white women being upset that they didn’t get their way,” as if they’re having a “temper tantrum.”
Gardner admits that “attending a march doesn’t do that much” if it’s all one does in terms of activism — especially when the focus of that activism seems so hard to locate. What started out as a march of concerned women has become more about self-involved stars throwing one final (we hope) temper tantrum over an election they expected to win but did not. They’re not for anything … they’re just against Trump. And that’s not what the country wants or needs right now.
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