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Over the past decade, Donald Trump’s opponents have struggled to find an effective answer to the rise of right-wing authoritarianism. There have been deeply earnest, sign-carrying boomers. There have been Antifa-inflected, black-clad protestors ready to spar with militarized Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

What there had not been, however, were inflatable frogs.

That is until Donald Trump sent troops to Portland, where ICE agents ran headlong into a 24-year-old in a blow-up frog suit named Seth Todd. Todd met a line of grim ICE agents by dancing and thrusting his hips. An agent sprayed pepper spray directly into his air vent, but he wasn’t defeated. I

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