It’s time to admit the resistance is winning. Donald Trump’s MAGA loyalists have been outclassed by their liberal adversaries on every front. We might disagree with their politics, but that doesn’t mean we can’t applaud their unyielding passion and remarkable courage in the face of adversity.
Kamala Harris’s alt-stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, traveled to Denmark this week for Copenhagen Fashion Week. Most people would never get invited to such events, but Emhoff is a former “model” and yarn influencer who knows the industry. Most people would have been too scared to post a political message on their Instagram accounts, but Emhoff persisted like American soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy.
“Copenhagen day 1,” Emhoff posted fearlessly while prancing through Copenhagen’s streets. “Fuck ice and anyone who thinks anything they are doing is ok.” In the accompanying video, she showed off a T-shirt bearing the message: “The Wrong ICE is Melting.” The design included an angry polar bear sitting on an ice cap—a double-barreled condemnation of immigration enforcement and climate change skepticism. Sophisticated observers immediately recognized Emhoff’s fashion statement as a targeted critique of Trump’s policies. Her resolve was compounded by her public struggle with climate anxiety, a condition affecting millions globally.
Hours later, Emhoff posted another message showcasing herself enjoying Copenhagen’s fashion week festivities and preparing to share a Danish hot dog from one of the city’s legendary pølsevogne, or “sausage wagons.”
On the home front, the anti-ICE resistance in Minneapolis has thrived under the command of Will Stancil, a young activist with four university degrees. Conservatives have tried unsuccessfully to mock him. “Yall are pussies while he’s a lion,” wrote Hasan Piker, the Maoist influencer. Stancil recently gained iconic status through his appearances on social media and in protest imagery—most notably blowing a whistle while filming on his phone beside his Honda Fit.
Stancil’s car became central to “The People’s Will,” an anthem by Jackson Lee Sargent that has amassed over 1,150 YouTube views since its release on January 22. The song declares: “You can hear the cry in the breeze / As Odin blows a righteous freeze.” “A Honda Fit leads the charge / The wills a city [sic], it’s growing large.”
At 40 with features resembling a teenager, Stancil has rallied the resistance through his direct confrontations with ICE officers and prolific posts on Bluesky. On one Wednesday morning, he wrote: “Alright ICE 8:30 AM you and I have a date. Do not come here. If you do come here, we will find you, we will watch you, and we will make you leave.”
Hours later, Stancil described “a stressful little chase” where his group pursued a vehicle onto the highway while a journalist in the backseat typed out their story to avoid arrest. Despite this chaos, he managed to publicly denounce Bari Weiss for undermining CBS News.
Stancil wasn’t alone in rejecting collaboration with figures aligned with Trump’s base. Philip Bump, the former Washington Post opinion columnist who left the outlet after protesting irrelevance, recently declared: “I need a job and I would not take a job working for Bari Weiss.” Though Bump now contributes to MS NOW—a network once known as MSNBC—his followers praised his moral stance. He clarified his position was hypothetical: “Oh, I think some people are reading this as my saying I was offered a job there. I was not!”
Before departing the Post, Bump gained recognition for writing extensively about Trump’s alleged attacks on democracy and storming out of a 2023 podcast interview when asked if Biden might have been tangentially involved in Hunter Biden’s foreign business activities.