A New York Times opinion essay by Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer argues that grassroots opposition to the Trump administration is more robust than many Americans assume. Drawing on a year of interviews with activists and dissidents worldwide, the authors contend that effective resistance to authoritarian leaders rarely hinges on a single march or election. Instead, it depends on ordinary people cooperating to make abusive governance harder to carry out—a concept one researcher describes as collective stubbornness. They point to local examples, such as communities organizing to shield immigrant neighbors and volunteers supporting detainees’ families, and they emphasize that meaningful resistance often means widening one’s sense of responsibility to include people outside one’s own circle.