You want to be protagonists with us.”The ACLU is spending millions of dollars on a plunge into grass-roots politics — a “People Power” campaign. [ACLU is launching ‘People Power’ project to resist Trump policies in cities]People Power debuted this weekend in south Florida and, by the organization’s estimate, at thousands of weekend house parties nationwide. The key to the effort: targeting Trump’s policies, rather than the man or his words. “We’ve seen this exponential growth in people becoming card-carrying members of the ACLU,” Romero said in an interview after his speech. Anybody who thinks the ACLU has become partisan needs to look at how hard we were on the Obama administration.

Source: Washington Post March 12, 2017 22:32 UTC