MUNCIE, Ind. — Over four hundred protesters from across Delaware County lined Wheeling and McGalliard, the busiest intersection in Muncie. The protest held at all four points of the intersection, as part of a nationwide action called “Hands Off”, where millions of Americans picketed against Trump and the billionaire class across 1,200 cities in the U.S. The demonstrators held signs criticizing the erosion of civil rights, capitalism, and cuts to social services like healthcare, education, and social security.

“We’re on social security, we’re worried about that.” Said Glen Cluck, a Muncie resident. “We’re worried about the crisis because of the stupid tariffs, and we’re worried about the people getting scooped up off the streets without any due process.”

Cluck, like most Americans, doesn’t buy the ‘‘waste, fraud, and abuse” narrative. He singled out Indiana Senator Jim Banks, after Banks doubled down on insulting a fired Department of Health and Human Services worker as a “clown” who “probably deserved it”.

“All [the fired employee] was doing was trying to find out what the Senator was going to do to make sure that elderly people were going to be cared for now that people have been fired,” Cluck said. “He needs to find that young man and apologize.”