After the 2024 election, many Americans just needed a break.

People turned off their TVs and they closed their newspapers.

An AP poll from last December found that around two-thirds of American adults said they felt they needed to limit their

consumption of news about the government and politics

because they were so fatigued.

And it looked at first

like the resistance of Trump 1.0

had disappeared, had gone quiet.

Now that may well still be true,

but earlier this week, there was a glimmer of something.

Elon Musk has got to go.

Our money. Our money.

On Tuesday night, in front of the Treasury building in Washington, D.C., a large crowd gathered for a nobody-elected Elon rally.

We have got to tell Elon Musk, nobody elected your ass.

Nobody told you you could be in charge of the payments of this country.

It was a chilly, blustery evening that began with a couple hundred people carrying homemade

signs gathered on the sidewalk in front of the Treasury building.

But by the time a group of

Democratic lawmakers began speaking, hundreds of protesters had spilled onto the street.

Police eventually just cordoned off a whole block of Pennsylvania Avenue.

If it wasn't the resistance proper, it sure felt... Tell me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like.

If it wasn't the resistance proper, it sure felt resistant.

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