A reformed anti-Trump resistance movement seeks to move forward under his second administration [View all]
Source: NBC News
Nov. 9, 2024, 6:00 AM EST
A resistance movement was born in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, sending thousands of people into the streets wearing pink hats and signs with punchy slogans. The leaders of left-leaning groups that emerged in response to Trump’s first election say they expect to be just as forceful in pushing back against the policy moves of a second Trump administration.
“I think that folks are very angry and are going to be turning out,” Rachel O’Leary Carmona, the executive director of Women’s March, told NBC News. But “2016 was a long time ago, a pandemic ago, two presidential terms ago. Things are going to be different. It’s not going to be the same.”
Following Trump’s re-election on Tuesday, scattered protests broke out in Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia and Berkeley, California, but they haven’t drawn the attention — or the numbers — that similar protests garnered in 2016 and early 2017. Women’s March is already organizing snap rallies and protests for this weekend in New York and Washington, plus a massive “People’s March on Washington” the weekend before Trump’s inauguration.
But in the years since Women’s March and other resistance groups formed to combat the rhetoric and policies of the Trump era, the movement has evolved beyond just rallies and marches, O’Leary Carmona said. “I think this is a different movement — an older and more mature movement,” she said. “2016 was a volunteer-led groundswell. ... Now it’s a movement beyond the moment — it’s not about visibility, but building power.”
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