Left-wing, anti-Trump protesters are facing a “disillusionment with activism,” according to reports.
After President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election, Democratic women were “disappointed but less shocked,” Axios reported.
Political science professor at Macalester College Lisa Mueller told the outlet, “So they didn’t have the same acute trigger to rush to the barricades that they did the first time,” adding, “It’s very likely that there is some disillusionment with activism.”
“When you first see something unexpected, it’s really jarring and you react strongly,” said Auburn University professor Mitchell Brown. “But the more you see and normalize something that was unexpected … the more habituated you become to it.”
Tamika Middleton, managing director at Women’s March, asserted that anti-Trump groups are exploring new ways of mobilizing people.
“We have been through a Trump presidency before, so we have some sense of what it is that we anticipate, and also some sense of what we need,” Middleton stated. “We know that we need a bigger, more robust movement, which means that we have to be bringing in as many people as possible.”
According to Middleton, the “exhaustion is real” among anti-Trump groups.
