This congressional district is purple, but the crowd at one town hall was overwhelmingly anti-Trump [View all]

Versions of the same question were asked over and over.

How can the average person keep the federal workforce from being slashed? What’s the best way to resist Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency? How should citizens oppose President Donald Trump?

Rep. Mike Levin, a member of San Diego’s Congressional delegation, returned repeatedly to the same answer: People around the country needed to speak up. “You all remember the Women’s March, the March for Our Lives, the Science March,” Levin told a packed theater in San Juan Capistrano on Sunday afternoon, referring to protests from Trump’s first term. “All of that happened not because anybody in Washington told them to march, it happened organically, it happened from the bottom up — and that’s what needs to happen again.”

Levin, a 46-year-old Democrat from San Juan Capistrano, represents the relatively purple 49th Congressional District that stretches from Del Mar in San Diego County to Ladera Ranch in Orange County. Much of that coastal area had been in Republican hands until Levin first won in 2018 — he was re-elected to a fourth term in November — but the crowd that showed up to San Juan Hills High School for his latest in-person town hall was overwhelmingly opposed to the current presidential administration.

The few times attendees became frustrated were when Levin didn’t appear angry enough about what’s happening in the nation’s capital. After a woman asked about Trump ignoring judicial rulings, Levin noted that many lawsuits challenging the White House’s sweeping executive orders were headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. “That’s when we will really see whether we are in a near constitutional crisis or a full-blown constitutional crisis,” Levin said, adding that he was relatively confident that a majority of justices would vote to reign in the president.

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