1,200 people. That’s the number the police department says attended Tucson’s “Resist Trump” rally in front of Senator McCain’s office Tuesday evening. That follows 15,000 at the Tucson Women’s March the day after the Inauguration, and a few other gatherings in between. I’ve participated in a number of street-side demonstrations, but this is the first I’ve attended in Tucson where the people were lined up at the curb five deep, with a bulge of 200-300 people in an area where people were speaking.

The crowd wasn’t protesting McCain, especially since he’s been something of an ally in the fight over the Muslim ban—though he has a bad habit of talking the talk, then wimping out when it’s time to walk the walk (Stick with it, John. It’s the right thing to do). Most of the signs and the emotions were directed at protecting the rights of Muslims and Hispanics who have every reason to fear for their safety and stability in the face of the pronouncements from Trump and his administration. The most frequent chant was, “No hate. No fear. Refugees are welcome here.”

The rally is part of a national “Resist Trump” movement, and the plan is to make Tuesday the day people gather—#ResistTrumpTuesdays. Moveon.org, which is one of the groups coordinating the nationwide effort, held an hour-long call on Sunday updating listeners on what’s happening in Washington, D.C. and efforts to fight against Trump’s outrages.

You can see photos from rallies across the country here.

This article appears in Jan 26 – Feb 1, 2017.

39 replies on “Tucson’s ‘Resist Trump’ Participants Make a Statement”

  1. #1 There is no Muslim ban. Stop the misrepresentations. Or are they intentional lies?

    #2 By last count Trump won the presidency with 306 electoral votes. (As per the Constitution and National Election Rules)

    #3 Losing brings out sore losers. Results are never modified to make the losers into winners.

    #4 The Cubs beat the Indians in the 2016 World Series, and the Indians have not whined once.

    #5 Want to become an Indian? Try acting like one.

    But the big one is #6. You guys had President Obama for eight years to move your agenda forward. What happened to that tingle that ran up your leg?

    Fundamental transforming of America, wasn’t what you thought it was?

    At some point in the very near future protesters are going to simply be identified as sore losers. Don’t waste eight years being that.

  2. I see you’re back but no smarter, Rat. You finally get paroled? Here’s the part candy-asses like you need to wrap your reptilian brains around – all your talk of sore losers is some serious pot-calling-the-kettle B.S. For eight years we had to deal with Republican stonewalling (putting party ahead of country), embarrassing attempts to deligitimize the president, and a sustained climate of mock outrage from your mainstream media. Yes, your bankruptcy king won (clap, clap) but there are more of us than you. Ignore that at your peril. And if you’re too sensitive to handle our protests then you better toughen up. Quick.

  3. Good to bring up the Republican reaction to and obstruction of the Obama agenda. I wonder what Republicans who wore “RESIST” buttons would have been called by Obama supporters. “RACISTS!!!” no doubt, whether their objections were actually to the color of the President’s skin or to his ideology and policies.

    The interesting question, as always, is “Who benefits?”

    Who benefits when candidates elected on a populist platform of hope and change and making government actually serve the people are RESISTED and OBSTRUCTED? Perhaps those who don’t want change and don’t want government to serve the people? I.e. the vested interests, the campaign donors, the puppet masters who in both parties sit behind the curtain and pull the strings on the politicians to whom we are asked to direct our attention, watching the show being put on for our entertainment, to distract us from what’s really going on.

    Nice that they’ve rigged this show now so it’s the party in opposition to each administration that will get blamed for blocking the campaign promises from being implemented. I wonder how many chumps actually believe that’s what’s happening.

    Obama was even brave enough to call a spade a spade at one point while he was in office, noting in a speech that there were a handful of people in this country who can (and do) determine who will be the major parties’ candidates, and “That’s not the way it’s supposed to be.”

    Bless his heart. What an impossibly naive, fustily democratic (not Democratic), old-fashioned thought.

  6. I can’t wait for DHS to come up with the Sanctuary City penalties. Then the liberals of Tucson will finally feel just how much it really costs to have their own personal sub class of people to clean their toilets and pull their weeds.

  7. I didn’t get paroled peaboy they just fell in love with me and let me go. That is still a great country over there. I have that effect on people.

    Reptillian brain? Ala David Icke?

    So, are you saying that your crybabies are better than our crybabies?

    It really is sad, because it use to be about doing work for the people. All the people.

    Do you ever think maybe the government has too much power and it is impossible to please everybody? Yet they all try for more.

    Good to hear from you!

  8. I have no doubt the thought of it makes your diapers moist, What, Again. People with infantile aggression like you live to see others punished. Hate to break it to you that Tucson isn’t a sanctuary city. But don’t worry, if your bankruptcy genius has his way, everyone will be paying a higher price.

    And Rat, I’m saying protest is as American as…well, America. And don’t expect it to go away anytime soon. The historical precedents for countries thinking in lock-step are not the stuff dreams are made of.

  11. Peabo – “I have no doubt the thought of it makes your diapers moist, What, Again.”

    You’ve got a pretty sick sexual fantasy there, Peabo. I sure hope you’re not allowed around minors.

  12. Wrong, Again:

    You interpreted that comment as sexual? Not only that, but you thought of minors also?

    Seems to me that you’re the person with the sick sexual fantasies.

  13. True that. Just look at the guy he voted for. Probably has a centerfold of Putin on the ceiling.

  16. While the handling is terrible, It is refreshing to see someone reducing immigration for a change. For too many years immigration rates have been at historically high rates due to a conspiracy of big business, their Republican minions, and, in secret, liberal politicians needing campaign cash or believing it would further their political ambitions.
    The result: low wages, failing social services and infrastructure, overpopulation and the inevitable shortages in basic needs like water. Not to mention our obviously fraying social structure (or why are we discussing immigration all the time).
    We could have no immigration for 150 years and only just get back to the historic average. The election of a flawed candidate like Trump had everything to do with high immigration rates and liberal politicians’ wholehearted support for it.

  19. A page out of the Mike Cernovich playbook, What, Again? Shame on me, I should’ve pegged you as one of his groupies much earlier. You’re so transparent. Just look at your comment history – the slime trail of an aggrieved, emasculated man. So sorry that you’re threatened by the rights of women and non-whites. Sorrier still that you think you can reclaim your status on a comment thread. Not really the stuff he-men are made of, is it?

  20. Peabo, I think we all saw just how “American” your protesters were last night at UC Berkley. They carried banners that said, “this is war!”

    Any idea where there funding and weaponry is coming from for their war? How about Command Central? The media and politicos have stoked this fire. Cal has been shamed, and I have not heard a word from University Pres Janet Napolitano. To now oppose free speech is the pinnacle of hypocrisy.

    If it is a declaration of war against our country, the military will respond. It is required.

    My favorite was the video of protesters with signs that read “Stop The Hate” as they beat people, lit fires and destroyed building property.

    Those are sure some lofty goals.

  21. Your comment would mean something if I’d actually been defending what happened in Berkeley. You won’t find any evidence of that, and you won’t catch me trying to tamp down free speech. Then again, maybe all protests are the same in your eyes. By that logic, that would make the tea party un-American, wouldn’t it? Something makes me think that’s not how you feel.

  22. Silence is deafening. I saw video footage of Tea Party rallys. They didnt even leave any trash on the ground. Plus they never hid their faces. The left has attracted a criminal element. They must feel accepted.

  23. @Rat T

    Go back into your hole. Make sure to take the dirt that you dug out to make that hole gets put back in once you’re there, so you’re trapped. Believe me, no one will miss you.

  26. Just creating jobs and making America great again.

    They rioted last night at NYU with BLM. I guess they can’t accept the fact that Trump won because of national security issues. They think everything is about them.

    Looks like it is…..Have a great day!

  27. Trump won because of 2 things:

    The outdated electoral college and Putin.

    Your fake news and alternative facts can’t mask that well enough.

  28. Troll-All three of those have been fully vetted and proven to be a fools folly. For one to believe that the electoral college is outdated one must also believe that the US Constitution is outdated.

    If you really despise the American system…..start a new country. That’s what we did.

  29. Trump won because the Democratic party has not been defending the interest of the working classes. In the primary he managed to dislodge a large part of the traditional establishment Republican base and in the general managed to dislodge some of the traditional Democratic party working class base. Why? Because it was quite clear Clinton 1, Bush 2, Obama, Bush 3, and Clinton 2 were not serving the interests of the working classes. (Note the repetition of names: any clues here as to what’s going on? It’s a flagrant, in-your-face form of plutocracy, oligarchy.) All of these great leaders of the American nation, every one, sold their souls to a malfeasant financial sector in exchange for the $$$$ it took to get themselves elected, and / or to maintain power and get portions of their agenda through a political process that is dominated by corporations, banks, and special interests.

    I did not vote for Trump. I voted for Sanders in the primary and Jill Stein in the general.

    In general, in this country, those of us in the 99% need to learn to listen to one another and exchange ideas. We might learn we have a few things in common, like the desire to keep the middle class from disappearing and this country from degenerating further into what many other countries have been and are: places where a small sector of the population enjoys unlimited freedom and the working classes have little or none.

    Personally, I’m happy to see Rat T back. I frequently disagree with him, but he doesn’t generally resort to cheap insults, like some of the other commenters in these streams. He seems to try to explain his perspective, and whether or not I agree with that perspective, I’m happy to try to understand what it is.

  30. Thanks One. You are correct-

    We might learn we have a few things in common, like the desire to keep the middle class from disappearing and this country from degenerating further into what many other countries have been and are: places where a small sector of the population enjoys unlimited freedom and the working classes have little or none.

    Amen. We have many more things in common. I just think we have tried too hard to go the other direction, and sometimes we become the problem.

    Keep it up my friend.

  31. @One of the 99%

    I think you may have hit the nail on the head. If we look at our Presidents the last 25 years, they all attempted to export our jobs and import refugees (created by us in some cases) at the expense of the American worker. I had never given much credence to that whole “New World Order” thing Sr Bush talked about, but it is destroying our country. And our jobs and our lives.

    I wasn’t sure about Trump, but he has turned THEM on their ears! I want to watch what happens in the next couple years. It may be that we had cancer and didn’t know it?

    Dr Trump will remove it! Let him.

    It may be the end of the Kissinger doctrine.

  32. You started a new country Rat?

    That’s great. Go back there and use your backwards logic to ruin that one too.

    You can be the top troll on your new country internet news sites and not have to fight What, Again for that honor on this site.

    He’s still winning, but you’ve posted enough ignorant stuff in the last few days to make up for a few weeks worth of trolling. Keep it up and you might just gain the edge you need to be #1.

  33. What is about term troll that you liberals just love? All you know how to do is knock people who destroy you in the arena of ideas. I weep for you schmucks.

  34. And we weep for you.

    We weep because you are a distant 3rd in the contest where Rat and What are vying for the top.

    And why do you think I’m a liberal? Is it because I can see through all this hubbub which you can not?
    Every time someone has a different view than you do you label them as a liberal, and that’s just wrong.

    You know what else is wrong? When you think you’re actually “slaughtering” liberals. Remove the s from slaughter and you get laughter. That’s what I get every time you fool yourself into thinking that you’ve put someone in their place.

  36. Neither Democrat, nor Republican, though I tried them both. I am an un-labelled American who happens to be greatly alarmed by Trump. I am very comfortable as part of the resistance I intend to keep it up until I am exhausted. It is not politics; rather, it is about lofty human (and humane) principles the very ones our founders used as the foundation of our Nation.

  37. I recently saw a friend wearing a “Resist” button. I said, “Resist what? The democratic process?” I asked what we would have said to people wearing “Resist” buttons after a candidate we both voted for, Obama, had been elected. This person and many others were up in arms about Republican obstructionism of Obama’s agenda, but when a candidate they didn’t like was elected, they immediately began to approve of precisely the same sort of obstructionist techniques they had recently despised.

    What do I call that? Hypocrisy.

    I did not vote for Trump. Here’s what I suggest to people who, like me, did not support his candidacy:

    1. If you object to the electoral college, you can advocate, through proper processes, for a change in the means we use to elect our President. If you do so, you had damn well better object to the Super-delegates and primaries-in-which-Independents-could-not-vote that were used to railroad a deeply unpopular, Wall Street-bought-and-purchased candidate like Hillary Clinton into the “Democratic” (not democratic) nomination.

    2. If you were, for example, a Sanders supporter, like me, support Trump on issues where there is overlap with your priorities, e.g. backing out of certain free trade agreements, adding more secure middle class jobs in the U.S. Oppose him on issues where you believe he is wrong, e.g. repealing Dodd Frank, stripping financial regulation and making the country vulnerable to another crisis like 2008.

    But don’t oppose Trump on every issue, across the Board, just because he is TRUMP and you’ve caught the disease the NYTimes and other irresponsible media outlets are trying to spread, whipping their readers up into an irrational, apocalyptic, hysterical frenzy.

    And whatever you do, don’t fall into the trap of discrediting yourself by behaving like a thug. Take it from these leaders of the Free Speech movement:

    From a Washington Post article on the recent Berkeley embarrassment:
    “Philosophy professor John Searle, a leader of the free-speech movement and professor since 1959, called the cancellation ‘an absolute scandal.’ He said most of what Yiannopoulos professes is ‘disgusting’ but that hes entitled to be heard. ‘Free speech has to be allowed for everyone,’ Searle said.”

    From a NYTimes article quoting members of the Free Speech Movement Archive board of directors, a grouping of some of the movements activists:
    “Berkeleys free speech tradition, won through struggle suspension, arrest, fines, jail time by Free Speech Movement activists is far more important than Yiannopoulos, and it is that traditions endurance that concerns us.”

    Looking around me since November 8, I’m concerned about the endurance of many things important to the healthy functioning of a democratic society: respect for the rights of those with whom we disagree, civility, rationality, consistency, ability to collaborate constructively for the common good. I see very little of any of these virtues in the reactions of mainline Dems to the election of Trump.

  38. Resist Irrationality and Hypocrisy: I am a Republican and I have joined the Resistance. It is not a Democrat issue, it is a Democracy issue. This Trump is flaming nuts, everyone hates him in this Country and all over the world.

  39. If Pam Fulgham would look back at previous articles she has posted on other sites…
    YOU’RE ARE A LIAR….. You are not a republican…
    Did you vote for McCain?
    Did you Vote for Bush?
    Did you Vote for Regan?
    This is what is wrong with this country>>>>People like you.

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