The 34-year-old librarian made clear she does not advocate violence, but nevertheless insisted that her one-meter (three-foot) sign, complete with tin foil blade, “communicated the visual language” of revolutionary fervor she longs for less than three months into Donald Trump’s presidency.
“I’m worried that the separation of powers is dissolving,“ she added, noting Trump’s dramatic expansion of executive authority. “And I do worry that people get into the trap of feeling like, well there’s nothing I can do.”
Hand-scrawled “Resist” signs poked up from the crowd, which organizers said amounted to more than 20,000 people.
Others carried American flags upside down, traditionally a symbol of distress or danger to the country's liberties.
Bob Dylan’s protest classic “Masters of War” oozed from a portable speaker. A larger-than-life paper mache model of Elon Musk, the billionaire whom Trump has tasked with slashing the federal workforce, cast a fascist salute.
While she fears a collapse in US-funded humanitarian work worldwide, “I’m really heartened to see so many people out here,“ she said.
“Unfortunately,“ she added, “I feel this in my heart that people aren’t going to come out until it hurts them personally somehow.”
Half a mile away, Shelly Townley and her husband were making their way past the White House, provocatively holding an upside-down American flag and a sign reading “Stop the Musk Coup.”
“I believe we’re under a coup right now, by oligarchs, much to my dismay,“ and “the checks and balances of our government” are disintegrating, she added.
“I wish that instead of being at a golf tournament at Mar-a-Lago that he was in there and could see what was happening out here, that the people are out here” opposing his policies, she said.
A 51-year-old woman who represents an NGO said she was wearing a mask “to protect my identity.”
“It’s all about loyalty with this administration,“ she warned. “And if you’re disloyal, you’re at risk of losing everything.”
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