Democrats feed off Comey firing to stoke anti-Trump anger

President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey is emerging as a new flashpoint for liberal activism that could fuel Democratic turnout in 2018.

Energized progressives packed a town hall meeting here Wednesday evening to give Rep. Tom MacArthur an angry earful for supporting the Republican healthcare proposal to partially repeal Obamacare that he played a key role in pushing through the House.

They ended up spending half the evening fixating on Trump's removal of Comey from atop the FBI, and Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

Sometimes heckling MacArthur, they demanded the congressman take action to prevent Trump from quashing an FBI investigation into Russian meddling that could implicate the president and his campaign.

"On Russia," said Kimberly Stewart, a town hall-goer from Willingboro. "We seem to have a pattern that people who are investigating it seem to be getting fired." She went on to ask MacArthur if he supports the appointment of an independent prosecutor to take over the inquiry.