Meet the #Resistance

Doug Todd had never organized a political event, and before February, he had never even been to a protest. But several weeks ago, he helped pack 200 people into the Tower Theatre in Roseville, California, for a town hall meeting with local Congressman Tom McClintock. An overflow crowd of nearly 800 more swarmed the sidewalk in this suburb north of Sacramento, waving signs and chanting against Republicans’ plans to repeal Obamacare. The veteran GOP congressman, who won his district with 61 percent of the vote in November, ultimately fled the scene behind a police escort, making national headlines.

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Todd is one of thousands of Americans who have turned up at airports, town halls, state capitols and congressional district offices since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, part of a popular uprising that already has many comparing it to the Tea Party, the upstart conservative movement that helped elect a wave of anti-establishment, fiscally conservative Republicans beginning in 2010. Targeting members of Congress and staging protests at local public events, the Tea Party cowed GOP officials and prodded the party to take an obstructionist stance against President Barack