Meet the Leaders of the Trump Resistance
Rolling Stone Magazine
January 13, 2017
Donald Trump is riding into office on a make-believe mandate.
Despite a possible assist from Vladimir Putin, Trump lost the popular vote by more than 2.8 million votes, and he's taking command of the Oval Office with the lowest favorability rating in modern memory: 37 percent.
"A normal politician would be chastened by that," says John Weaver, a leading Republican Trump-critic, who advised Ohio Gov. John Kasich's presidential bid.
"But the rules don't apply to him."
Trump's surprise victory, Weaver says, "emboldened him somehow."
To put government power behind his darkest campaign rhetoric, Trump has assembled an extreme team - a crew that includes proud Islamophobes, heroes to white supremacists, defenders of torture, and executives from ExxonMobil and Wall Street.
"What he's going to do at a policy level is much worse than most liberals understand," says Van Jones, the executive director of the Dream Corps and a CNN contributor.
"It's going to be a Blitzkrieg from above - against everything we care about."
The Trump agenda threatens the welfare of women, immigrants, LGBGQ Americans and, through climate denial, the health of the planet itself.
"You're talking about the rights and lives of millions of Americans at stake," says Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU.
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