On the Democratic side, members have been so despondent about a second Trump victory — and, in particular, Trump’s resounding win of the popular vote — that the public reaction has been just a sliver of what it was to after his first win in 2016: no massive protests in major liberal cities or on college campuses and no major corporate denunciations of Trump. ...
“Because now it’s very clear who he is. Like, ‘We don’t care that he’s a felon and we don’t care that he’s a rapist. We don’t care that he’s corrupt.’ Whereas before, the jury was a bit out, and now we know. And people are saying — like, literally by voting — they’re saying, ‘Yeah, those things don’t matter to me,’” said Vanessa Wruble, co-founder of the 2017 Women’s March. ...