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Video: Samantha Bee's Excellent Tribute to the Women's March

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Belafon1/27/2017 5:50:51 am PST

Why marches may be the most important way to deal with Trump:

In that world, losing the popular vote so badly or having an inauguration crowd dwarfed by the one that protested him the next day is a sign he’s not a winner — he’s a loser. After all, Jeb Bush was lame and “low-energy” because his crowd sizes were so small. Marco Rubio was “little” and Ted Cruz was “lying.” After more than a year of bragging about his crowd sizes against his primary opponents and Hillary Clinton, the fact that his Inauguration had so few people attend is stinging. But the fact that there were two or three times the number of protesters the next day -most of whom were women — is a sign, according to Trump’s own logic, that he might just be as low-energy as Jeb.

That’s why popular protest is such an important weapon against Trump. It shows his weakness even to his base, because they see the strength of the opposition with their own eyes. The 54 percent who voted against him were personified in last weekend’s Women’s March — a march of both women and men, children and grandparents, people of all races and creeds.

So we cannot just call him a cry baby or dismiss these lies as a crazy conspiracy. We have to show it. Our resistance cannot begin and end with last weekend’s marches. We have to keep the marches and protests going to show that the majority is not with him. His support is a minority, and it may always be.

We have to keep showing up, because that’s our most powerful weapon. Trump can dismiss polls, but he can’t ignore people. He can yell at the media, but he can’t erase the photos and videos of millions of Americans taking to the streets to fight back.

From this moment forward, resistance must be routine.