There is a very professional and sophisticated anti-Trump network at work in this country. It literally soaks the DC area like a fine mist. It is subtle. It is so pervasive that the attitude is a given, it is not spoken aloud, and if it is and you don’t go along with it you are the odd wo/man out.
The stretches to formal and informal national organizations, some new, and some well-established. Of course it also stretches to media.
Thus, the “resistance toolkit” for demonstrators is by default the anti-Trump toolkit; the words “rule of law” mean “Trump is a tyrant.”
This network has positioned itself as the “moral and just” fightback to Trump, the “real democracy,” the “will of the people.”
They have developed training guides aimed at “empowering” citizens to “resist” law enforcement which is cast as the enemy.
For those who are not demonstrating, and don’t need a toolkit for interacting with law enforcement, there are “support organizations” designed to help people “weather the storm” of the “Trump regime.”
Of course, the “charity and support” side is inextricably linked to the “fight and resist” side.
All of it is to protect the corrupt Establishment and nothing more.
Ordinary people are being manipulated.
It’s a chicken and egg problem, because the vicious rhetoric around Trump 10 years ago is largely what led to the underground movement to impeach him, a movement that started (as the Washington Post has documented) on the day of his first inauguration.
That resistance contributed to DOGE, which as we all saw was a very traumatic phase in the life of Federal employees.
The nonstop rhetoric leads to polarization, anger, fear, hate, and binary thinking.
And now a mother of a young child is dead, probably because she was idealistic and believed she was helping to save the world.
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 