Moreover, the anti-Trump movement has shown political progress where it matters most: the ballot box. In the past 150 days, Trump opponents have won a blow-out in Virginia, the first newly elected Democratic senator from Alabama since 1986 and a victory in a Pennsylvania House district Trump carried by nearly 20 points. If the anti-Trump movement is “failing,” that’s news to the GOP leaders sounding “blue wave” tsunami alerts.
Nor have the anti-Trump movement’s wins been merely political: They have come in policymaking, too. Obamacare — albeit wounded — remains alive, covering about 12 million Americans. Deep cuts in social programs were reversed by a bipartisan spending bill Trump loathed — but signed. Trump’s wall is not built, states are enacting common-sense gun reforms and Trump’s environmental protection rollback is more rhetoric than reality.
A vibrant, booming legal resistance — powered by a mix of established groups and new organizations — has checked many of Trump’s worst initiatives. Court rulings have stopped his anti-refugee plans, moves against the LGBT community, deportations of “dreamers,” the foolish “voter integrity” commission, rollbacks of contraception rights, rule changes that undermine environmental protections and more.
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