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What you are saying doesn't really add up. If the environment is really that hostile because Trump was elected, it should not be fostering movements like #MeToo. It should have crushed dissent. A wake up call doesn't lead to something like that. There has to be some positive factor being overlooked.
We're a constitutional republic, not an authoritarian regime regardless of how much current administration wishes otherwise. Good guys need villains, they need them to have purpose, to have focus. Without that ability to focus catalysts for change never amount to much.
I am well aware that sometimes negative events can be a catalyst for positive change, that sometimes they cast light on the problem and make it visible. But comments here indicate that people long knew about, for example, Weinstein's bad behavior. It fostered jokes, not a groundswell of public outcry.