WOMEN, IMMIGRATION CONTINUE TO SNARL TRUMP’S WASHINGTON

Calling all women

There is at least one thing in America not shut down over the weekend.

Women power.

“Call it payback, call it a revolution, call it the Pink Wave, inspired by marchers in their magenta hats, and the activism that followed,” writes Charlotte Alter for the new Time magazine cover story. “There is an unprecedented surge of first-time female candidates, overwhelmingly Democratic, running for offices big and small, from the U.S. Senate and state legislatures to local school boards.”

That surge translates to four times as many Democratic women as Republican women seeking House seats, and twice as many Democrats in Senate races.

We can thank Donald Trump — or at least disgust with Donald Trump.

“In 2016, they were ordinary voters. In 2017, they became activists, spurred by the bitter defeat of the first major female presidential candidate at the hands of a self-described p—-y grabber. Now, in 2018, these doctors and mothers and teachers and executives are jumping into the arena and bringing new energy to a Democratic Party sorely in need of fresh faces,” reads the Time piece titled, “The Avengers.”

This weekend, we watched women in streets across the country again on Saturday and Sunday — Chattanooga, too. But this time, they didn’t just march to protest the election of Donald Trump or his first year in office.

Newsweek put it this way: “Women’s March 2018 isn’t about Trump — It’s about upending the entire political system.”

Already, Democratic women in Virginia unseated 11 male Republican incumbents in the House of Delegates. First-time candidate Ashley Bennett defeated a New Jersey politician who last January shared a sexist meme on Facebook that read, “Will the women’s protest end in time for them to cook dinner?”

He has plenty of time now to fix his own dinner.

Don’t look for this movement to slow anytime soon. It’s just getting started.