Remember when the Women’s March was a big thing back in 2017? It really was huge that year and pink “pussy hats” were all the rage. And then there were those awkward accusations of anti-Semitism and by 2019 the march wasn’t drawing nearly as many people.
Whether it was stormy weather, reports of controversy or the simple waning of interest over time, the third annual Women’s March events on Saturday attracted much smaller crowds than in years past.
In Washington, in a frigid marble plaza only blocks from the White House, early attendees at first seemed to be outnumbered by barkers hawking T-shirts and buttons.
“I’m disappointed. It’s definitely not the turnout I was looking for,” said Peggy Baron, 53, a lawyer from Dublin, Ohio, who said that the first Washington march two years ago had been “wall-to-wall women.”
And then Biden was elected and…
