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Protesters in MAGA hats and flying Confederate flags swarm Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Wyoming, New York and Virginia to demonstrate ‘tyrannical’ and ‘unconstitutional’ lockdown orders that are ‘worse than the virus’
- Thousands of protesters drove to Michigan’s State Capitol to protest Democratic Gov Whitmer Wednesday
- They waved Confederate flags, showed off Trump 2020 posters and held banners saying ‘Heil Whitmer’
- In Utah protesters held signs that read ‘Resist like it’s 1776’ and ‘America will never be a socialist country’
- And in Kentucky protesters shouted out as Democratic Governor Andy Beshear spoke to the state
- A Reopen North Carolina Facebook page has 42,000 members; a protester was arrested there Wednesday
- And a startling image from Ohio shows a baying crowd at the window of the Statehouse Atrium on Monday
- In Virginia a protest against Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s lockdown took place on Thursday
- New York residents also took the streets Thursday despite the Empire State being the epicenter of the virus
- In Wyoming protesters led calls to ‘defend liberty’ and urged Gov. Mark Gordon to not ‘flatten the economy’.
Protesters have continued to gather across the United States, ignoring social distancing rules, to demonstrate against lockdown orders they call ‘tyrannical’ and ‘worse than the virus’.
Crowds of people – many decked out in MAGA hats and with Donald Trump posters – have met up in Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah and Wyoming this week with more crowds in Virginia Thursday.
The organizer of demonstrations in Michigan, Meshawn Maddock of the Michigan Conservative Coalition Quarantine, called the lifesaving quarantines ‘tyranny’.
The group say they are ‘Republicans who want our party to stop moving left’. They run associated groups called Michigan Trump Republicans and Women for Trump. Maddock told Fox News: ‘Every person has learned a harsh lesson about social distancing. We don’t need a nanny state to tell people how to be careful.’…