From left, Bob Bland, Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez and Tamika Mallory, organizers of the Women’s March in January, in Washington last month protesting gun violence. CreditJonathan Ernst/Reuters

In the midst of our Trump tears, The Women's March mobilized our anger and our anxieties on Jan. 21. Writing for The New York Times, Bari Weiss reminds us of the tremendous unity that seemed to exist among Democrats and progressives on that historic day.

Four exceptional women — Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour — were the faces of the march. All well-known in progressive circles, the quartet was widely praised, writes Weiss.

There was Tamika Mallory, a young black activist who was crowned the “Sojourner Truth of our time” by Jet magazine and “a leader of tomorrow” by Valerie Jarrett. Carmen Perez, a Mexican-American and a veteran political organizer, was named one of Fortune’s Top 50 World Leaders. Linda Sarsour, a hijab-wearing Palestinian-American and the former head of the Arab-American Association of New York, had been recognized as a “champion of change” by the Obama White House. And Bob Bland, the fashion designer behind the “Nasty Women” T-shirts, was the white mother who came up with the idea of the march in the first place.

The remainder of Weiss' op-ed focuses on what she calls the "alarming ideas" of the quartet, with a targeted focus on the recent controversies swirling around Linda Sarsour. I addressed my own concerns on Sarsour's tactics and strategy last week and will not comment on the points raised by Weiss, who focuses on their celebration of Fidel Castro, Louis Farrakhan, Assata Shakur and more.

The Women's March organizers are assuming a defiant stance against what we might call FINOs -- Feminists In Name Only -- because we do not embrace their platform in a group hug for their heroes list. Their insistence that we reject Hillary Clinton and embrace Louis Farrakhan, who insists that whites are a "race of devils" and that "white people deserve to die" is not the mantra of form of feminism that I can embrace. ~ Anne

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