Still, organizers say they’re also trying to reach out to people beyond the left.
“We’re seeing people in quite red districts who are organizing to resist the Trump agenda,” said Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, the resistance movement that boasts at least two chapters in every congressional district across the country. “We’re hearing about people who are independents and Republicans coming together.”
Evan McMullin, a former congressional aide who ran a quixotic third party presidential candidacy as a choice of anti-Trump conservatives in November, said it’s still early, but initial conversations between the left and right are already underway.
McMullin would not detail those discussions, though he noted that both sides could unite on issues like the president’s refusal to release his tax returns, the subject of nationwide demonstrations planned for April 15. “It shouldn’t be so new for people on the left and the right to make contacts in the defense of democracy, but it feels like East Germans making contact with West Germans through a hole in the Berlin Wall,” McMullin said.
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