Trump has caused a growing number of liberals to start prepping for an apocalypse

The afternoon after Trump won the presidential election, Colin Waugh, a 31-year-old resident of Independence, Missouri, logged into Facebook. He then created a group called the Liberal Prepper and invited 38 of his friends.

Three weeks later, The Liberal Prepper climbed to 1,000 members. As of now, it has amassed nearly 2,000.

The group is for liberals who, following Trump's election, started prepping for

"There was less of a threat of a nuclear holocaust brought out by Obama," Waugh tells Business Insider. "There’s a leap into fear now that Trump is in power."

In October 2016,

The Liberal Prepper page is active, with . There are photos of vegetables stored in mason jars; tutorials for homemade gardens, canoes, and bunkers; information about medical kits; a few liberal memes; numerous news articles; and links to off-grid gadgets like pedal-powered laundry machines.

A member named Seth posted that he has canned over a gallon of carrots and has bought ten 3.5-gallon water storage containers, while another woman posted that she will use $500 worth of her tax return to buy gear.

One man, named Mannie, posted a photo of his new kerosene heater, and asked others what they thought of the brand. A few members liked a recent photo of a liberal prepper's sink, full of mangoes she plans to store.

Stacy, an Idaho-based woman who serves as a co-administrator of The Liberal Prepper group, became interested in prepping in the months leading up to Election Day. As a single mom of a kindergartner, she says she now worries about her son's education (especially with Betsy DeVos as education secretary) and the possibility of him learning hate rhetoric from some of Trump's followers.

"I don't know if there are going to be changes to the curriculumStacy, who who declined to give her last name, tells BI.

She has bought just a handful of supplies so far: seeds, c

The group's members are not the only ones who began prepping in response to Trump's win. spikes in sales since the electionMy Patriot SupplyDoomsday Prep

Waugh says he does not consider himself (and the liberal prepping community at large) a part of the American Preppers Network (APN), the largest organization of its kind in the US. This is because he says the majority of APN's members lean conservative (though the APN site states that it accepts people from all political affiliations).

Unlike conservative preppers, liberals tend to focus more on skills and supplies that will provide comfort (e.g. in the form of stoves and blankets) rather than protection (e.g. firearms), Waugh says. However, a handful of Liberal Prepper members have bought guns and ammunition since the election.

"With liberal preppers, we’re thinking about things that transcend man-made cataclysm, every sort of disaster: tornado, natural volcano, earthquake, the power grid failing, or having dry storage goods on hand to prevent our family from starving," Waugh says.

He is preparing for all the above, but his

"If you were to ask us what cataclysm is most likely now, we’d say some Trump-related accident that causes the dishevelment of society," he says.

This spring, Waugh plans t

"My goal is to either prevent tyranny in America or be prepared for it if we can," he says.

Trump has caused a growing number of liberals to start prepping for an apocalypse

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