By Mark Rhoads -
The First Amendment gives all of us the right to demonstrate for or against anything we want to. Many conservatives now started to become more active in Tea Party marches in 2009.
On Saturday, tens of thousands of women marched to in general vent their anger at President Trump. I have to say "in general" because the specifics of their anger are a little vague in what appeared to be a CNN-sponsored show.
Some of the marchers say they want to create a "Tea Party on the Left" but I have to wonder how many of these newly visible marchers actually voted at some polling place on Nov. 8, 2016?
The marchers were mostly white, but election data shows that Trump won 53 percent of white women who actually voted on Nov. 8.
So who are these marchers? They appear to be mostly the most solid Hillary Clinton diehard voters who were older white college-educated elites but they were not a majority of women who voted.
Many elitists love to be vocal and visible as part of being fashionable, but at the same time many elitists seem to think that routine political work at the precinct level is beneath them so they do not wind up as precinct captains or field workers. Marching with friends can be fun but it is not necessarily a tactic that leads to long-term effective political activism for a specific goal.
After 2009 the Tea Party developed some factions and it is reasonable to expect that the pink hats will also fracture over time. There were many legitimate reasons for Republicans to be critical of bad behavior and comments by Donald Trump before Nov. 8.
Being president does not absolve anyone from criticism be it former Presidents Carter, Clinton, Bush 41 or 43 or President Obama. President Trump will get more than his share of critics thanks to the slant of the media.
But from now on as president, he deserves to be judged on his actual deeds in office rather than careless tweets before he entered office.
