Published February 22, 2017 at 10:00 a.m.| Updated March 3, 2020 at 2:49 p.m.
A YouTube video currently making the rounds on social media is titled, “What It’s Felt Like Since the Election.” In it, a man wakes up in the morning, checks the news on his smartphone and immediately begins howling in terror. His sustained howl lasts throughout the day as he encounters others — at a coffee shop, the supermarket, yoga class, the dog park — who are all yelling, too.
If the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s administration have left people feeling like they’re in the Edvard Munch painting “The Scream,” they’re not alone. That sentiment is rampant across left-leaning Vermont. An unprecedented uptick in political activism since the inauguration began at the January 21 Women’s March on Montpelier, which drew an estimated crowd of 20,000.
And then came the deluge of constituent emails, letters …