After watching yesterday's historically depressing inauguration, it was great to head downtown with my mother to participate in the March on Washington, along with a crowd rivaling the largest Vietnam War protests, some of which my mother participated in. Minimum crowd estimate so far is 500,000 but those of us who were there are certain the crowd was substantially larger. The Metro was so crowded, although we just barely grabbed a spot just inside the doors of a train going downtown in the morning, we gave up trying to get back to my neighborhood on the Metro and walked all the way from the White House, through Dupont Circle, to my apartment.
The March was entirely peaceful so I did laugh a little when I overheard one Trump supporter say to another (inside the Natural History Museum, where we stopped in briefly for lunch), "I like your hat" (referring to the red baseball hats that say "Make America Great Again"), to which the other Trump supporter said "I like yours too; it makes me feel safe"(referring to us protestors, most of whom wore pink "pussy hats").
