WASHINGTON ― The backlash to Donald Trump’s second term has been coming in big waves. Democrats’ sweep in last week’s elections. The 7 million people who turned out nationwide for last month’s “No Kings” protests.
But there’s been another, less obvious kind of blowback playing out all year, too: a massive surge in young progressives signing up to run for office.
In the year since Trump won reelection, nearly 75,000 people have signed up to run for local or state office through Run for Something, a grassroots political group that recruits young progressives in down-ballot races across all 50 states.
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For context, about 67,000 people signed up with the group in Trump’s first term ― over the entirety of those four years.
