Trump succeeds where Obama failed spawning a new wave of liberal activism
Trump succeeds where Obama failed – spawning a new wave of liberal activism
Mark Z. Barabak
The night Hillary Clinton lost the White House, Amanda Litman cried so hard she threw up.
In Atlanta, as the returns rolled in, Traci Feit Love faced a question from her anguished 8-year-old daughter: “Now what do we do?”
Across the country, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Rita Bosworth wondered the same thing.
The three never met, never spoke, never communicated in any fashion. But in the days and weeks that followed, they became common threads in a sprawling patchwork: the angry and politically aggrieved who — with no help from politicians, political parties or any formal campaign structure — have joined to fight President Trump and his policies.
From her Brooklyn apartment, the 27-year-old Litman co-founded a group called Run For Something, which encourages people under age 35 to do just that. Thousands have signed up, many of them political novices.
Love, a 40-year-old attorney, took to Facebook and virtually overnight created Lawyers for Good Government, now a coast-to-coast army of legal experts battling Trump on issues such as immigration and a ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries.
Bosworth, 38, helped start a network that steers donors and activists in Democratic-leaning states like California toward legislative contests in more Republican redoubts, on the theory that their actions can have a greater impact where resources are scarce.
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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-spontaneous-protest-2017-story.html
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to inspire liberal activism? Why can't we win big and keep winning? We could have had the WH for at least another 4-8 years, once following Clinton and once following Obama and both times we choked. Why is that?
We fall down REALLY hard during the midterms. Some people vote in the Presidential elections and then seem to tune out for the next 4 years. If you REALLY want to know why Democratic Presidencies REALLY go downhill, it's that they lose their Congressional majority during the first midterm 2 years in and then spend the rest of their Presidency having to cut deals with Republicans and deal with Republican obstructionism while most everybody else sits on the sidelines and rage against the Democratic President for "caving", "acting like a Republican", and "not getting anything progressive done".
We can't keep winning if we don't control the narrative. Right now republicans own most of TV, nearly all of radio, and most print. They can lie, demonize, and slander us any way they want, and it will get picked up and repeated until it eventually becomes true. Thank God for the internet or we'd have nothing to get our message out there, but republicans want to take that from us too. 
