Fast food from 2 protests in Michigan.

On Saturday morning, I noticed nearly 400 demonstrators who gathered outside the Tesla showroom in Ann Arbur, Michigan. They were armed with flags and cardboard marks, and they said they felt that American democracy was under the siege.

“Hey, hey, is, he, Elon Musk must go,” the group chanted as they walked up and down on the sidewalk outside the agency. They gave their signs in the air-a variety of cartoon drawings drawn by hand, digital graphics, and slogans that took the goal to Elon Musk and the new Trump administration.

I noticed more than a few signs, removed with the phrase “Fire Elon Musk”.

One of them said: “The smell of Elon Musk is like the oligarchy and the vitamin.” Another said, more certain, “I have friends in Canada.”

The protest was one of more than 200 to be held outside the Tesla showrooms worldwide on Saturday. These gatherings are part of “Tesla Takedown”, an effort that began in February and describes itself as a “peaceful protest movement” “taking a measure in Tesla to stop the illegal coup.”

Later on Saturday, I attended another protest outside a mall in Troy, Michigan, with the Tesla showroom. The assembly was smaller, closer to 150 of the attendees, but more enthusiastic.

The demonstrators lined up on the sidewalk outside the mall and interacted with cars that drive inside and outside the parking lot. In a few times that Cybertruck passed, the demonstrators have wore them, and the passengers were raised in an undeclared battle of ideology – and they taste in cars.

Since Donald Trump began his second term and Ain Musk as a great advisor, Musk has radically changed the federal government in the name of efficiency. He hired a group of old warriors, advisers and lawyers in technology to Doge to help him reduce spending and jobs in many federal agencies.

Under the new administration, diversity, fairness and integration programs were cut off. Student loan programs are also subject to change as Trump moves to dismantle the Ministry of Education.

Among the two protests that I attended, I spoke with more than 20 people about what led them to work on the rainy Saturday. The answer was almost unanimous. They were afraid that the middle class, minorities and future generations would be silent by the most important billionaires in the Oval Office.

“We have never had people in the government trying to already destroy our government literally, actually work, and face clothes,” said Maria Marcot, 73, the mother of Congress at Michigan Halle Stevens, who was protesting in Troy.

In Ann Erbor, a woman who asked not to be named told me that this is a “basic attack on democracy.” She said that there is a “loss of all democratic standards, institutions and the rule of law – it is terrifying.” “I am old. I lived during some difficult periods, you know the era of Vietnam, but nothing like this.”

Many people in Ann Arbour said that Musk did not care about them before entering politics. Now that he worked with Trump, they said he was more wrong than realizing.

Judas Garper, 69, told me: “I was originally a great admirer. I wanted to buy Tesla.” “I am more interested in his actions in his non -elected role, as you know, randomly,” he said.

I noticed that the crowd in Ann Arbour and recounted in the first place from the elderly over the age of 65, White, and a retirement from jobs that depend on general financing as teachers and professors in local universities and social workers. The left bent over the political spectrum. Some described themselves as “hostile to Trump”, “anti -Republicans” or “pro -democracy”. Others said they had a clear transformation from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in their younger years. Although I am horrific with the current administration, I noticed that they are disappointed with the Democrats in power.

At the heart of any protest is an issue and what will feel influenced. Many attendees told me that the most achieved goal of these demonstrations is to influence the people who pass through and their neighbors and those who are removed from all of this.

Jose Tishk, the non -retrospective Ann Arbour branch organizer, a popular organization for progressive reasons that helped mobilize many demonstrators on Saturday, said the trade felt positive.

“It’s a party here,” said Teschke.