In the midst of the madness and rage, Farhad Manjoo at the New York Times has a piece about the spontaneous and very public uprisings against Trump.
And he has given it a perfect name: the Alt-Majority. Because, as he says:
Unlike the Tea Party and the white-supremacist “alt-right,” the new movement has no name. Call it the alt-left, or, if you want to really drive Mr. Trump up the wall, the alt-majority.
Devilish me. I’m going to bold Mr. Majoo’s last sentence because it makes me grin. Broadly. Don’t you love it? And as one who marched in D.C., I can report the cheekiness of the term Alt-Majority perfectly expresses the witty, angry ebullience of our crowd of millions.
We’re witnessing the stirrings of a national popular movement aimed at defeating the policies of the president.
Source: The Alt-Majority: How Social Networks Empowered Mass Protests Against Trump – The New York Times
A few more excerpts–but you’ll enjoy reading the entire piece:
Mr. Trump feeds off media attention. Throughout the campaign, the bigger a spectacle he created, the larger he loomed in the public consciousness. What has been remarkable during the last two weekends is how thoroughly Mr. Trump’s own media personage was blotted out by scenes of protesters.
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Even for those who did not assemble on either weekend, the pictures carried special power. Amplified on social media and echoing across every TV network, they suggested something larger afoot, something democracy-defining. “Something’s happening out there,” Ana Navarro, the Republican never-Trumper and television pundit, declared on Twitter.
Something sure is. We’re witnessing the stirrings of a national popular movement aimed at defeating the policies of Mr. Trump. It is a movement without official leaders. In fact, to a noteworthy degree, the formal apparatus of the Democratic Party has been nearly absent from the uprisings. Unlike the Tea Party and the white-supremacist “alt-right,” the new movement has no name. Call it the alt-left, or, if you want to really drive Mr. Trump up the wall, the alt-majority.