Her description betrayed how the Resistance isn't specific to Trump.
Is this movement rooted in resisting aspects of Trump that make him unique-or is it also based on the ones that don't?
Take Barack Obama adviser Eric Schultz, who on Tuesday criticized a Politico profile of Trump critic and Nebraska senator Ben Sasse titled "Sasse tempts Trump's wrath by refusing to bow."
A Trump dissenter calling Ben Sasse to task for his voting record isn't taking issue with the president, but with generic right-of-center policies: those that predated Trump, did not fuel Trump's rise and are separate from his core appeal, and have become associated with Trump only because he inherited them.
The progressive grassroots organization Indivisible, which was created to "Resist the Trump Agenda," characterized Kavanaugh as an agent of "Trumpism." "If Trump successfully installs Brett Kavanaugh, Trumpism will infect the court for a generation. The stakes are no less than the fate of Roe v. Wade, the Affordable Care Act, LGBTQ rights, and our democratic institutions," said the group's co-founder, Ezra Levin.
The prevailing resistance narrative seems to grant that Donald Trump is a peculiar specimen but a threat for the usual reasons.
In documenting the Resistance's inception, Gage, the Yale historian, noted several of the ways that the movement's buzzword was being used and who was using it: Michael Moore did, Keith Olbermann did, and so did Indivisible, "a group of former Democratic congressional staff members [who] published a much-discussed pamphlet titled 'Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda.'" Then there was the social media component: "On Twitter, hashtags like #ResistTrump, #NewAmericanResistance and #TheResistance document the range of concerns and movements now assembling under one banner."
https://www.weeklystandard.com/chris-deaton/whats-the-resistance-actually-resisting
Is this movement rooted in resisting aspects of Trump that make him unique-or is it also based on the ones that don't?
Take Barack Obama adviser Eric Schultz, who on Tuesday criticized a Politico profile of Trump critic and Nebraska senator Ben Sasse titled "Sasse tempts Trump's wrath by refusing to bow."
A Trump dissenter calling Ben Sasse to task for his voting record isn't taking issue with the president, but with generic right-of-center policies: those that predated Trump, did not fuel Trump's rise and are separate from his core appeal, and have become associated with Trump only because he inherited them.
The progressive grassroots organization Indivisible, which was created to "Resist the Trump Agenda," characterized Kavanaugh as an agent of "Trumpism." "If Trump successfully installs Brett Kavanaugh, Trumpism will infect the court for a generation. The stakes are no less than the fate of Roe v. Wade, the Affordable Care Act, LGBTQ rights, and our democratic institutions," said the group's co-founder, Ezra Levin.
The prevailing resistance narrative seems to grant that Donald Trump is a peculiar specimen but a threat for the usual reasons.
In documenting the Resistance's inception, Gage, the Yale historian, noted several of the ways that the movement's buzzword was being used and who was using it: Michael Moore did, Keith Olbermann did, and so did Indivisible, "a group of former Democratic congressional staff members [who] published a much-discussed pamphlet titled 'Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda.'" Then there was the social media component: "On Twitter, hashtags like #ResistTrump, #NewAmericanResistance and #TheResistance document the range of concerns and movements now assembling under one banner."
https://www.weeklystandard.com/chris-deaton/whats-the-resistance-actually-resisting
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