Afterward, Bandy, grinning, thanked everyone on the sidewalk for coming. She'd honed her lungs at karaoke nights around the city, she said, and the scream really had felt cathartic. But a year into Trump's America, she was feeling better about national politics than she had in a long time. The night before, Democrats had scored wins in elections around the country — sweeping to gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey on explicitly anti-Trump platforms.