Axios: The Trump 2.0 resistance: Alive, but evolved

[Dennis Donovan]

Axios - The Trump 2.0 resistance: Alive, but evolved

Avery Lotz
9 mins ago

The resistance of 2025 may not be wearing a pink knitted cap — but it's alive in town halls, streets, campuses and car dealerships across the country.

The big picture: If the 2017 Women's March heralded a new era of protest, so too, have the days of DOGE and an empowered, zone-flooding Trump.

• The early moves of President Trump's second term have pulled a wide range of Americans into the political crosshairs, from National Parks Service workers to Social Security recipients to the transgender community.

"One of the miscalculations ... in their flood-the-zone strategy is when you flood the zone, you hit everyone," said Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the progressive Working Families Party.

• That's brought previously uninvolved people into resistance efforts, Mitchell said.
• Members of varied local labor organizations, parents concerned about education funding cuts, veterans and even some dissatisfied Trump voters, among others, have rallied behind shared frustrations, he said.
•"These are pretty divergent communities of people who didn't have a cause to come together, but have a cause to come together now," he said.

Zoom in: Irate constituents pushing back directly against lawmakers in town halls (even when the lawmaker isn't present) has emerged as one of the signature protests of 2025.

House GOP leadership urged lawmakers to shift from in-person to virtual town halls amid the surge in protests at events Republicans argued had been hijacked by Democratic activists.

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