I’m sure I’m in the minority here but what made Trump’s remarks so vile is that he made them in front of the Memorial Wall at the CIA. Those stars represent operatives killed in the line of duty who can’t be honored by name because of the nature of their activities.

The alternative fact of the matter is that he won 95% of the total votes and his approval rating is higher than an adorable kitty hiding in a box of packing peanuts

oh, but we didnt demoralize him, sean - he came to us, quite honestly, without any morals at all.

But doesn’t it feel so good to be morally superior, all alone on that high horse?

I’m a white lady and I’ll be there for BLM and Standing Rock and Flint in the future. But not everyone will, and I think that’s ok. Some of them will be there for climate change and Planned Parenthood and feeding the homeless. We need them too. Maybe some of them will do nothing after this. But they showed up this…

Serious question: does the Black Lives Matter movement have a set position on whether they want white people at their protests or not? I’ve read several high profile articles both ways. I’ll admit to staying away, in part because I’ve read several impassioned pieces saying that I shouldn’t go.

This all feels a bit too cute by a half. Valid concerns, many of which have been expressed people all throughout the Democratic coalition, but in this case, in a way to try and lord them over something undeniably good because you’re obviously holier than thou. Quite frankly, it’s tacky and messy.

They have no ability to stick it out because you’re already discounting their commitment predicated on the belief that if we don’t get the results we want, fully, it will be for nothing.

You see it on the other side too. Like you can’t be Republican and denounce Trump unless you want to called a traitor. You have to be with him for everything or be left out in the cold. (Hello, Romney.) Because of this we ended up with the GOP as it is today. A monster on Capitol Hill.

My protest is better than your protest

Agreed. An activists job at a large successful action is not to whine about why the people who showed up weren’t at the previous actions, but to do something — other than whining — to make sure as many of them as possible come back to the next one. This article is not helpful.

I work for an advocacy organization. We all went to the march, with our friends and our families.

Yeah, that’ll make the first-time marchers feel great. Can we stop picking at people who gave enough of a shit to come out and march in January, and then tell them it isn’t good enough? I think all women need to be respectful of the new-to-protest women who are now galvanized. Coming together on commonalities and…

What’s with these purity tests that people on the left require of one another?

While I understand there are valid critiques of the Women’s March, and they have been discussed elsewhere including other Jezebel articles, this here piece just kinda stinks of “gotta pick apart something!” I think part of the strength of the right is that they rarely eat each other the way we do on the left. No one…

Can’t this be a first step? Let’s encourage people to join and listen.

I don’t see a reason to get pissed at people who want to pay for private school, as long as they pay their part for public school. More money for public schools to put towards the other kids.

I’m not advocating for abstinence, but I do wonder how all these men would feel if their wives and girlfriends began taking the whole “abstinence is the best method of prevention” advice to heart and started a No-Sex Protest against them until they changed their minds.

Tangentially related but how cute is Ian mckellen’s sign for the women’s march?

Also, the women’s march is not made up exclusively of folks who came late to the party, as the original poster implies. I was a vocal and excited HRC fan and I waved my signed and marched today.