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TOM MCCLINTOCK should have had an inkling he’d face some blowback just two weeks after Donald Trump’s inauguration. On February 4, the Republican congressman—who won his district by 61 percent of the vote in November— encountered such a fierce reception at a town hall in suburban Sacramento, California, he wound up leaving the event with a police escort, dodging a hostile, overflow crowd of rowdy protesters on the sidewalk outside.
Weeks later, McClintock was more prepared for the roughly 1,700 people who packed a high school gymnasium for another town hall in suburban Sacramento, the majority of them angry. The four-term congressman stood i rm on his support for repealing Obamacare, building a wall on the border with Mexico and carving out exemptions in discrimination laws for religious organizations that oppose gay marriage.