What’s the point?
As that famous philosopher and Saturday Night Live host, Aziz Ansari once said (just this past Saturday), “If you look at our country’s history, change doesn’t come from presidents. Change comes from large groups of angry people — and if day one is any indication, you are part of the largest group of angry people I have ever seen.” Millions of women & children and the men who love & support them gathered in Washington, D.C. and all around the country this weekend to march for their rights, and the response from some quarters was “why bother?” 
I’m talking of course about the Women’s March on Washington this past Saturday. Approximately half a million women & men showed up in D.C. to take a stand in support of women’s rights and the rights of families and children in general. Many thousands more turned out to satellite marches in more than 600 cities across America (at least one in all 50 states, for a total of 3 million or more people nationwide).
But there’s also a second reason I think we need to pay attention to what Trump supporters are doing when they push this idea: they’re not not just trolling, it’s a genuine attempt by Trump and his people to give the impression that he won an overwhelming victory. They then use that impression to claim widespread support for their unpopular actions.
tion for all of the votes to be tallied, so Clinton’s lead slowly climbed over the month that followed. As her edge in the popular vote grew, so did the urgency on the part of Trump supporters to convince the broader public that this lead didn’t really exist.
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It’s finally here! The day of Trump’s much anticipated press conference arrived today, after being postponed from its earlier date in December. And it was 
Years ago, I spent a summer interning at the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. The final step before they would accept me for the internship was that I had to undergo an FBI background check. They asked such detailed questions going so far back in time that I actually had a hard time remembering some of the information and was afraid I would accidentally tell them something that wasn’t true. I also had to submit my fingerprints to be run through their database. Just to be a summer intern.
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