Anti-Trump Resistance Movement Facing Post-Election Depression?
Leftists who were part of the so-called "Resistance" movement against President-elect Donald Trump in 2016 are now facing a "disillusionment with activism" after the Republican won again this November, political scientists and organizers have realized.
In a Sunday report titled "The Resistance goes quiet," Axios aimed to explain why the left wing has not erupted into widespread protests like what occurred when Trump beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton eight years ago.
Lisa Mueller, a political science professor at Macalester College, said female Democrat voters are more disappointed than shocked this time around.
"So they didn't have the same acute trigger to rush to the barricades that they did the first time," Mueller, who studies social movements, said. "It's very likely that there is some disillusionment with activism."
Auburn University political science professor Mitchell Brown concurred, saying, "When you first see something unexpected, it's really jarring and you react strongly."
"But the more you see and normalize something that was unexpected & the more habituated you become to it," she explained.