Street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest“Where is the resistance?” is a common refrain. Our research affirms that resistance is alive and well.Many underestimate resistance to the current Republican administration because they view resistance through a narrow lens. The 2017 Women’s March in particular – immediate in its response, massive in its scope and size – may inform collective imaginations about what the beginning of a resistance movement should look like during Trump 2.0.Erica Chenoweth is a political scientist at Harvard Kennedy School and co-director of the Crowd Counting Consortium. Chenoweth is the author of Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know and co-author of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.Jeremy Pressman is a professor of political science at the University of Connecticut and co-director of the Crowd Counting Consortium. His most recent book is The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force.Soha Hammam is a postdoctoral research associate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Nonviolent Action Lab, where she researches political mobilization and law enforcement responses across the US. She was previously a democracy visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a peace scholar fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. Continue reading... ...read more read less