Following a brass band down the street, the residents who had voted for the victorious Democratic presidential candidate, Grover Cleveland, in the Nov. 4 election "marched up and down cheering and chanting campaign familiarities" punctuated by fireworks.
Still, the separatist threat was out there, just as it has been for the last 40 years of tumultuous elections, marches, family spats and even a spurt of terrorism in 1970 that led to martial law.
The march once again reminded me of the post-election marches against Prop 8, both of them constituting protests against public cruelty targeted at a still disfavored minority.
This being so, it is to put it kindly puzzling that so many Democrats want to fight the next election by marching angrily to Barack Obama's left.
For instance, Gov. George E. Pataki, a Republican who is facing a race for re-election next year, marched with the mayor of Vieques, Damaso Serrano.
In April, when it was clear that the Rump would set a limit to its sitting but would nominate its own members to judge new elections, Cromwell marched to Westminster and dissolved Parliament.
After the election, Mrs. Burack marched in Mr. Carter's inaugural parade, a triumphant walk in the sunshine for the woman who for so long had hidden in the dark.
Notable amid its fusillade of egregious falsehoods was the contention that Republicans were defeated in the election because they marched into battle armed with empty slogans ridiculing the threat of global warming, pandering to anti-immigrant nativism, condoning water-boarding, and so on.
Just as pussy-grabber-in-chief Trump's election spurred women's marches, inspired more women to run for office and, arguably, galvanized the Me Too movement.
After the election, hundreds of thousands marched in the streets in support of Mousavi.
