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When President-elect Donald Trump won his first election in 2016, unprecedented protests erupted across the Bay Area and the U.S. Upwards of 7,000 people took to the streets in Oakland on one night alone, joining demonstrators – and some rioters – from Portland to Chicago and New York City.

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This time around, the streets are quieter.

“The reactions have been fairly modest,” said Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University. “What I’ve been hearing, anecdotally, is that people are just worn out.”

On Sunday, the eve of Trump’s second inauguration in Washington, D.C., several hundred protesters marched in downtown San Francisco to decry what they called the “billionaire agenda” that includes the repeat Republican president. Trump has tapped a slew of billionaires for cabinet posts in his administration, including Tesla and Space X executive Elon Musk and Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks, who both share Bay Area professional roots.

The march Sunday followed minor anti-Trump rallies in Mountain View, Alameda and San Francisco the day before. Also on Saturday, a national march billed as the main arm of the anti-Trump resistance drew a few thousand protesters to the nation’s capital. That’s a far cry from the throng of more than 1 million people who flocked to the Women’s March in 2017.

Standing atop a stake bed truck rented from Enterprise, Lisa Eugene, an activist with the Answer Coalition, shouted into a microphone and implored rally-goers to stay involved during Trump’s second term. Activists held signs reading “People united will defend immigrants” and “The Bay Area Says No to Tech Billionaires.”

“We’re going to win only if we fight,” Eugene said to cheers. “Join an organization. That’s how you become a fighter.”

Opposition to Trump’s immigration agenda animated much of the rally Sunday, as speakers repeatedly defended undocumented immigrants as critical to the U.S. economy and worthy of dignity.

“It is on their backs that corporations make a filthy amount of wealth,” said Laura Valdéz, executive director of Mission Action, a San Francisco nonprofit that provides resources for immigrants. “Let’s not forget that.”

Jesus Moctezuma, 26, said he’s noticed widespread fear in his community in San Jose about Trump’s plans to remove undocumented immigrants. Moctezuma was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. with his family in 2006, he said. That’s the same year that immigrants and their advocates – including those in the Bay Area – marched by the millions to oppose a proposal in Congress that would have criminalized undocumented status, in one of the largest protest movements in modern U.S. history.

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