Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch believes that Tesla owner Elon Musk's attempts to slash and burn the federal government have awakened voters who are now engaging in what he describes as an "American uprising."
In his latest column, Bunch focuses on the protests that are targeting the showrooms at Tesla car dealerships to protest against Musk's illegal efforts to shut down entire government departments without any congressional input or authorization.
Bunch recently attended one such protest in which he interviewed attendees who described for him "a mad-as-hell-can’t-take-it-anymore moment" that had made them grow absolutely furious at Musk.
39-year-old social worker Matt DeCarlo, for instance, told Bunch that he was sickened by Musk throwing up a Nazi salute earlier this year, which spurred him to join in protests against him and his Department of Government Efficiency.
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"Consider these pickets the first green shoot of an early spring uprising across America, after a winter of discontented hibernation by many of the 78 million who’d voted against Trump and his anti-democratic vision," writes Bunch.
Added to this are the town halls in which Republican lawmakers are facing increasingly hostile constituents, as well as "large protests over the last week by laid-off federal workers, by LGBTQ activists in New York City furious over the scrubbing of transgender references from the Stonewall National Monument, and here in Philadelphia and elsewhere for last Monday’s Not My President Day."