In 2017, the Resistance movement exploded across America with massive protests, hashtags, and nonstop anti-Trump content. The Resistance birthed a powerful group of anti-Trump influencers, podcasts, Twitter accounts, and personalities. But fast forward to today and Liberals have all but stopped resisting. Resistance influencers who once railed against Trump now openly support him, and progressive movements have been significantly hollowed out. What happened?
Taylor Lorenz dove deep into the Resistance movement to unpack how it arose, who benefitted from it, and, ultimately, how Democratic leaders, resistance influencers, and mainstream media gradually embraced the exact ideology they so vocally claimed to oppose.
Could it be that this movement has been mostly “desktop warriors”?