LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – While most folks their age are swapping prescriptions or chasing early bird specials, two seasoned citizens decided to spend a few hours of their golden years staging an anti-Trump protest in Lansing – under partly sunny skies on a crisp 54 degree April day.

Camped out in front of Michigan Republican Rep. Tom Barrett’s district office on a lazy Thursday afternoon, these two determined demonstrators – armed with a bevy of protest signs and righteous indignation – decided to swap their bingo game time for banner-waving instead.

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With their collection of protest signs including ones that read “We Must Stand Up!” and “Save Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security” they stood up against what Democrats are calling the “tyranny” of President Trump and everyone who supports him, including their protest target: Michigan Rep. Tom Barrett.

From six to two: protest turns into a senior stroll.

On April 24th, a local Lansing employee captured a shot of this dwindling protest crew. What looks like to have started as a group of maybe six was quickly whittled down to just two die-hards holding down the fort around lunchtime. The rest? Maybe they ducked out for a lunch break – or bolted to make it in time for the senior center’s high-stakes Euchre showdown.

Barrett’s district office is located on West Ottawa Street in Lansing. It is situated across from the Michigan State Capitol building with several eateries in the area to duck into including the Kewpee Sandwich Shop and Nuthouse Sports Grill.

These “faces of the resistance” are part of a broader Democrat Party effort to coordinate sidewalk sit- ins and office stakeouts in front of Republican lawmakers across the country. It’s all part of a coordinated campaign to crash town halls, grill GOP reps on their support for President Trump and Elon Musk, and generally make their disapproval known – loudly and publicly – no matter what the grievance.

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The silver-haired resistance rolls on.

Across the country, it’s not Gen Z or even the millennial rage machine leading the charge at Republican town halls – it’s mostly the over-50 crowd. With reading glasses perched firmly on their noses and graying hair, these protesters are making their voices heard.

As media reports are pointing out, the turnout for these protests is skewing older, with retirees leading the charge. Notably, the “Hands Off!” demonstrations have attracted many middle-aged and senior participants. They are the ones who have got time, they’ve got opinions, and they’re not afraid to use both.

Retired, rewired, and ready to rumble at town halls.

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According to a Business Insider report from early April, after dispatching journalists to protests across various cities, the outlet concluded that the demonstrations against Trump and Elon Musk shared some striking similarities. They reported: “The crowd looked older, with middle-aged Americans seeming to outnumber the 20-somethings that dominated rallies during the pandemic.” That observation was also true at a protest they attended in Novi, Michigan where they said the protesters “appeared to be middle-aged or older.”

So, while the younger progressives – including Democrat Reps. 35-year-old Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (N.Y.) and 44-year-old Jasmine Crockett (Texas) – are leading the charge to re-start the boots- on-the-ground resistance movement against Trump, the older Democrat voters, not the younger ones, are the ones using their signs, their feet, and their retirement days, to show up at town hall meetings to protest.

Meanwhile, Gen Z is quietly pulling a political plot twist. New polling shows young voters are giving Trump a second look, with those aged 18 to 29 approving of him by a slight margin according to Real Politics opinion research.

As Boomers turn their backs on President Trump, voters in their 30s are showing him even more support than younger voters. Turns out, years of lockdowns, online-only classrooms, and mandatory masking didn’t exactly breed loyalty to the party that pushed them on the masses. Now, the generation that was told to “trust the science” is trusting their gut – and shifting right.

Party of two.

According to a witness to the Barrett “protest,” there was sporadic honking by people driving by. After all, this is Lansing, a city that sits within Ingham County where voters chose VP Kamala Harris to be president over Donald J. Trump by a margin of about 30 percentage points. It’s also in a state that elected to put Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer back in the governor’s mansion even after her draconian COVID-era lockdowns.

In the end, Thursday’s protest wasn’t a flash mob or even a well planned protest event in front of Barrett’s office. It was more like a slow shuffle of dissent. But make no mistake: these retirees may be short on numbers and knee cartilage, but they’re long on opinions and spare time. As the political winds shift and younger voters start cozying up to Trump, it’s the Boomers who have decided to take up the mantle of anti-Trump protesting with their windbreakers, protest signs and walkers.