The Man on the Front Lines of the Anti-Trump Resistance

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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53785/jon-ossoff-georgia-anti-trump/

There are several things to love about special elections. One of them is that many of them take place in the spring, which means that, in Atlanta, anyway, you can have house parties outdoors, with a little fire-pit at the end of the driveway for when the sun goes down and the air chills back down to February again. Another is the fact that they generally are ad hoc operations.

One of the contenders, and the guy who I met in February at a lovely home in the Atlanta suburbs, is Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old Democrat, and a former congressional aide who has made a subsequent career producing documentary films. And Ossoff, a mild, softspoken fellow who is the furthest thing from a bombthrower, has become the first real test case of The Resistance at the ballot box. Hillary Clinton ran much closer in the Sixth than she did in Georgia at large. Also, Ossoff banked an important endorsement from Congressman John Lewis early in the process, and he headlined his first serious email fundraising pitch, "Make Trump Furious," which, experience teaches us, is a very attainable goal. That caught the attention of the progressive blogosphere, and Ossoff's campaign soon had $3 million in the bank.