Mary, thank you and your fellow protesters for engaging in our political process.  Now it's time to take that energy and commitment and organize, focus, and sustain it for the next 21 months and beyond.  You'll need to make some compromises.  If you're all going to gather and demand...pick your favorite topic (LGBT rights, equal pay, pro-choice, violence against women...) and then go home and vote for Bernie or Jill or some minority candidate who stands no chance of winning, you'll end up with a second Trump term, along with his enablers like Sullivan.

You'll need to compromise.  Better yet, run for office yourself, even at the local assembly level.  Do what it takes to make an incremental step forward.