This weekend, after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory dashed progressives’ hopes of a new era for women’s rights and other left-wing causes, Women’s March held a hastily arranged protest in Washington. Only about 200 people showed up.
The first Women’s March, held in the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s 2017 inauguration, drew hundreds of thousands of people to the National Mall. But this week, Women’s March organizers are grappling with despair that the president they oppose has been elected to a second term, and questions about where the movement is headed.
The goal of the Saturday afternoon event was to reinvigorate the organization’s progressive base after the election and perhaps to unleash some anger at the Heritage Foundation, the think tank that had designed a policy playbook for a second Trump administration, Project 2025, whose goals included aggressively curtailing access to abortion.
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