The Resistance Almost Missed Impeachment
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—By the time I arrived at the protest, the giant inflatable Trump Rat was already up and waving in the wind.
A mob of people huddled together under its shadow, outside city hall here, for nearly two hours last night in a show of support for today’s historic impeachment vote—just one of more than 500 rallies held simultaneously in cities and towns across America. Some members of the crowd listened attentively as a lineup of speakers proclaimed the president’s unfitness for office. Still others focused their energy on passing cars, brandishing homemade signs reading IMPEACH NOW and TRUMP IS LAWLESS. Every minute or so, a driver slowed down to lay on the horn.
It was the first time that liberals have rallied on any mass scale to advocate for Donald Trump’s removal. There was no sustained popular protest movement triggered after the in April, nor after the revelation of the in the eve of the House vote—came at a time when the outcome is already essentially baked in: House lawmakers, including who for weeks were on the fence, have already decided how they’re going to vote, and the Senate seems almost certain to let Trump go.
