Political reporter: DCers Protesting Themselves Ragged

The hot mantra of Washington, DC: “Protesting is the new brunch.” As Katie Rogers reports in The New York Times, “many residents of this heavily Democratic area who once attended the occasional protest have adopted resistance to the Trump administration as a lifestyle.” And there’s hard data to back it up: “Mike Litterst, a spokesman for the National Park Service, said the agency had received about 200 requests since the start of the year to demonstrate on parklands in Washington, including the National Mall. There were about 50 requests during the same period last year.” Can it last? Probably not. “One obstacle is protest fatigue,” Rogers writes. “Ms. Muskin-Pierret, who attended the earlymorning protest, called the problem of weariness ‘so real,’ and Ms. Jones, the college professor, said ‘self care’ was becoming an important element of her routine.”