19 January 2017

Women’s marches in Helena and Washington, D.C., on Saturday

Tomorrow, Donald Trump gets sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. The next day, hundreds of thousands of left-leaning women will assemble in Washington, D.C., and in most state capitals, to swear solidarity and allegiance to a selection of progressive goals.

Montana’s women’s march commences at noon in Helena, but the marchers begin massing at 1130 MST. Details.

At the Capitol, 21 speakers, by my count, will pray, sing, and speechify, for the marchers.

According to the march’s organizers, men are welcome. But nothing about event, which is a blatant exercise in identity politics, suggests to me that I would feel welcome.

The Washington, D.C., march is also an identity politics event to which men are nominally invited (but I suspect a great many feminists hope men will stay home). According to the New York Times, the “check your privilege” race baiting of some of the organizers is so offensive that many women are staying home.

Saturday’s crowds in marchville will be much smaller than the crowds for Trump’s inauguration. How that will persuade the new President to take the women’s issues seriously escapes me.