Finally, The Washington Post has decided to give some ink to people who not only did not vote for Trump but who are rightfully appalled by the hideous damage the administration is doing — and who are getting increasingly bold in their dissent.
The article covers the bases — shamings of Trumpsters in restaurants, demonstrations outside private homes, moms getting arrested in migrant kids' names at the Hart Senate Office Building. (By the way, Philip A. Hart, for whom the building is named, would have approved.)
Still, we detect a little whiff of disapproval hanging about the article. It's that unmistakable, inside-the-Beltway scorn of anything disruptive — whether in eateries, "outside private homes on quiet streets," or "in office hallways as people are trying to work." See what we mean?
We'd like to remind anyone who's taken aback by the anger and resistance — especially journalists, who have the power of the pen — of something important. These awful Trumpsters are suffering nothing worse than what countless women seeking to exercise their Constitutionally protected reproductive rights have had to endure outside women's clinics for decades. (Not to mention the abortion doctors murdered in their own kitchens and churches. Journos who live in uterus-free bubbles might spare a moment for the guys who have lost their lives to the "pro-lifers.")
So if you're feeling just a teensy bit offended that people are shouting outside Stephen Miller's apartment building and getting into Elaine Chao's face (because chicken hubby Mitch McConnell scampered away and into the SUV), give us a break.
As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "This is no ordinary time. No time for weighing anything except what we can do best for the country as a whole, and that responsibility rests on each and every one of us as individuals." Angry and alarmed Americans are answering that call in droves, and we cats PURR.
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