Will the Resistance Win in 2018?
NOVANEWS
By Amanda Marcotte, Salon
Tens of thousands march to the White House down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017. (Photo: Evelyn Hockstein / For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
As the clock hit midnight last New Year's Eve, I asked my friends how on earth we could toast in 2017, when the United States was about to inaugurate a racist who didn't even hide his fascist impulses as our next president. One of my friends smiled, raised his glass, and said, "To the fight."
I took it both as reassurance and admonishment. No doubt I had been in a pit of despair since I left the Hillary Clinton party-turned-wake at Manhattan's Javits Center in the early hours of the morning on Nov. 9, wandering in a daze through Hell's Kitchen as people b...