When Sen. Andy Kim held a series of town halls in New Jersey, the voters he met weren’t just angry — they wanted to get involved.
“People don’t want to be bystanders to the decline of America,” Kim, a Democratic freshman, said in an interview. “They want to play a role, they want to try to stop this.”
The energy he and other Democrats are finding in rallies and town halls across the country has surprised them, and opened a new avenue for the party’s resistance to President Donald Trump and a Republican Congress. Locked out of power in Washington, ...