For Julie Aberger this is a private as well as political Déjà vu. At the beginning of the seventies, they protested in the exact place on the National Mall to the Capitol – against the Vietnam war and the then American President, Lyndon B. Johnson, the successor to the ill fated Richard Nixon.
she demonstrated, because Johnson “had prolonged the war endless.” Your current displeasure with Donald Trump’s personal: “The indecency that embodies this man! His Agenda, I think what so is contrary to!” The 69-Year-old takes a deep breath. “I’m here to stand up and say: no!”
in those days, as Aberger modelled as a student in Washington against the President, rebel, rebelled more than 40 years later, in Washington against the President, this time as a Pensioner, with her daughter and son-in-law. “My husband passed away, otherwise he would be here.”
Barely 24 hours after Trumps swearing-in roll huge protest marches by the United States. More than half a Million demonstrators in Washington, hundreds of thousands more in the Rest of the country. Such massive demonstrations did not occur since the Vietnam war, and never as a direct reaction to the Inauguration.
According to calculations from Jeremy Pressman, a Professor at the University of Connecticut, went out on Saturday, even up to 4.2 million Americans to the streets – the largest protests in U.S. history.
“The worst day and the best day of my life”
“Sometimes I’m afraid of the future,” says Abergers daughter Helen, an Opera Director. “But then I see all these people and do not feel alone.”
Whether fear, anger or solidarity: their motives are as colorful as their concerns – women’s rights, civil rights, and immigration. What began as a fixed idea, became the “Women’s March” with dozens of groups – and then to hope a germ of a new resistance, the men, women, left, Left, Moderate, straight, LGBT, White, Black, Latinos, and many others against Trump could unite.
“We are the Revolution!”, call. “We are not going to disappear!”
At the same time, the uprising offers a kind of catharsis after the Trauma of the last few weeks. “This is the worst day of my life and the best day of my life,” says Internet entrepreneur John middle Brock, with his son Colin. “I’m afraid that Trump is not quite right in the head.” Colin, 16, wears a poster on the Trump as a steaming droppings The posters, the slogans, the variety, the Stars – Cher, Michael Moore, Madonna, calls out the “Revolution”: The contrast could not be starker to the day before, in the same place, in the midst of the historic monuments of Washington, a lot of unit applauded more, stoischere, whiter crowd, their President. And a much smaller one. That Trump the “Against-swearing-in” under the skin, and shows itself in the fact that his first full day will be overshadowed as the President entirely from the squabbling about who brought more people to the Mall – he or his “enemies”? Want to be called: Who represents the true soul of the Nation? Where were these people on election day? Reports, $ 250,000 had come to the Inauguration, so half of the protesters, contradicts Trump immediately: “Looked like 1.5 million!” His spokesman, Sean Spicer, accused the media in his first appearance of the “intentionally false reports”: Trump had “the largest audience of all times”. no Matter: The Anti-Trump-March, swells so that it is cancelled for reasons of safety, almost. But where were these people all on election day? And: What’s the use? On the Mall, nobody cares. Most of them are proud that so many of you are there. The set is a character. Show that Trump can’t walk completely without resistance through his presidency. A the beginning, then you see more. Actually, the core question of this week-end, how sustainable is the Protest will be. If it remains a one-time event, then Trump is the 21st century. January soon forget, and relatively quiet by rule. Many of the insurgents are dreaming, however, of a real movement, the Trump makes things difficult. A networked Protest of feminists, “Millennials”, minorities, and organized Democrats, artists, Intellectuals. But even so, they know it would sell Trump hardly out of the White house. Democrats hope that political commitment The strategic thought behind it is, therefore, not to allow the billionaire is sometime perceived as a reconciler. Trump retains the Image of the Splitter, will remain its popularity so weak as at present, so the calculus. And that could cause him problems with the Congress. Because the Republicans are likely to have little interest to support him in the upcoming local election fight constantly. The Democrats are hoping that the Protest in the coming months and years leads to political Engagement. The party must reorganize, in terms of personnel and structure. An emotional base could facilitate the work. In addition, many of the important Senate and Governor elections are coming up soon, which could shift the balance in Washington. And mobilised the party at the base, the better. “This will give us – the men and women, the Democrats in Congress – real energy, to move forward,” said the Congresswoman Lois Frankel at a Breakfast of democratic politicians before the March. Also, your colleague Chellie Pingree sees the protests as a “huge help” for the party. Julie Aberger, who demonstrated against Vietnam and against the war in Iraq, and now against Trump, anyway, March: “Here is the same tone prevails as in the past. Care and love and the readiness to peaceful Protest.”
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