^Krueger, Katherine (September 30, 2024). "The #Resistance Is Back. Be Afraid". The Nation. Retrieved October 1, 2024. 2017, when a loose coalition of voters, elected officials, and former TV game show contestants joined together with the singular goal of resisting a newly inaugurated president, Donald Trump, whom they viewed as an existential threat to democracy and the republic itself. #TheResistance, as it was known on the website then called Twitter, didn't materialize in time to stop Trump's first election, but it had solidified its place in the culture by the time he took office