Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert, and we are reporting on what is a significant type of blowback, including in red districts, not to the idea of Donald Trump. He won a narrow election.

So the idea was just over, about one and a half points over half of the voting public said yes to that idea.

What we're seeing now is significant, even if all

the votes are in and we're in the governing era, as I've told you. And that is opposition to the

reality, the policies, some of which had been hinted at, some of which from Elon Musk are very

different from what was campaigned on, and we're seeing it strong, broad, and in red areas.

So what are those policies? A lot of the recent, say, first month plus has focused from the federal

government under the Trump administration on a cabinet that many viewed as extreme and in some

place isn't experienced, indiscriminate mass layoffs.

That term is not an opinion or an observation. It is what people like the outgoing FDA chief,

nonpartisan experts, concerned Republicans and others have said. And the misuse of the possibly,

and at times definitely legitimate concerns in our government about waste fraud and

abuse. Combine all that with some blunders and mistakes, which, again, not an outside opinion,

but even the Trump administration has had to admit, like when they've fired people and then

rushed to try to rehire them the next day, which amounts to the governing chaos of,

sorry, or we messed up, or how do we undo what we did yesterday.

And so the American public, in ways that we're measuring tonight, and this is our top story,

is hearing about this.

And although there is usually a honeymoon period, and there is usually more kind of receptivity to the first hundred days,

that combined with a bunch of executive orders that have gotten

caught in the courts that have drawn attention to a sort of governing style that people think may not

be delivering for them is igniting something real. Newtown halls, rounds of them over the weekend.

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