Massive Protests Against Trump Are Just the Beginning
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Millions of Americans flooded into the streets Saturday to protest president Donald Trump; his Department of Government Efficiency hatchet man Elon Musk; the GOP’s agenda to pay for tax cuts for the richest with cuts to Medicaid; preposterous cuts to science, health, and education; Trump’s mistreatment of trans kids and immigrants; as well Trump’s tariff blitz, which is decimating their retirement accounts.The Hands Off! protests drew massive crowds to streets of blue cities including New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. But large demonstrations also erupted in smaller red-state urban centers, like Salt Lake City, Utah, and Missoula, Montana, as well as in hundreds of conservative communities across America from Flower Mound, Texas, to Tupelo, Mississippi.The demonstrations were organized by a broad coalition — including groups that rose to prominence in the first Trump administration, like Indivisible, upstarts like the 50501 movement, as well as established grassroots gro...