Punk rocker Paul Heriot, at left, with fellow Trump supporters at Monday's downtown New Haven inaugural watch party. A rebel roar arose from a Temple Street bar in the People’s Republic of New Haven as Donald Trump took the oath of office Monday as America’s 47th president.The roar went up shortly after noon in the main hall of 144 Temple, the former Playwright nightclub across from the Omni Hotel. A hundred Republicans from around Connecticut and all walks of life gathered there in the downtown heart of blue New Haven, where protests were planned for later that day, for an inauguration watch party. They cheered on a man many viewed as a fellow take-it-to-the-man outsider ready to shake up the established order from the most powerful post on earth.State GOP leaders were in D.C. to celebrate in person. It cosponsored the New Haven watch party for the party faithful remaining in the state.“You just watched the rebirth of our nation!” event co-organizer Dominic Rapini, a former GOP candidate for statewide office, told the cheering crowd as Trump completed his ​“solemn” promise to defend the U.S. Constitution.“Connecticut is next!” yelled a voice from the crowd.The three TV sets above the bar went silent after the oath. The screens showed the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club performing ​“The Battle Hymn of the Republic” inside the somber Capitol rotunda.Meanwhile, inside the Temple Street bar restaurant, DJ James Shanahan (aka TekNeek) cranked up the VIllage People’s ​“YMCA” for the second time at the event. Beside him onstage, presidential impersonal Tommy Trump45 took to the stage stomping his version of the dance Trump made famous at his campaign rallies. Members of the crowd picked up the cue with their own moves.Watching the crowd, Rapini, who runs a Branford cybersecurity company, noted how Trump assembled a winning coalition by luring people who saw themselves outside the political process.“He inspired so many low-propensity voters. He appealed to our common sense and our sense of rebellion,” Rapini said. ​“We’ve got business owners here, retirees, blue-collar workers. We’ve got custodians and CEOs …”“… and,” he said with an eye twinkle, ​“a few baristas.”Among those cheering on the new president was Paul Heriot, a 67-year-old illustrator and cartoonist who used to lead a punk band called The Presidential Targets and design controversial cover caricatures of police bruatlity for the now-defunct altweekly New Haven Advocate.Wearing a ​“Trump 2024 — God — Guns” cap, Heriot said he retains his outsider views from the days he voted Democratic. He would have voted for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this year were he on the ballot.The biggest ​“rebel” on the scene now, Heriot said, is Donald Trump. He was drawn to Trump’s vows to ​“drain the swamp.” He followed podcasters like Joe Rogan and former Young Turk Dave Rubin as well as former Democrats like Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard (“She was actually put on the no-fly list!”) to the MAGA ticket.Pat Kennedy, who drove down from New London for the watch party, said he looks forward to having a ​“strong country again” under Trump. He met a New Haven construction worked named Oliver Augustin, who was seated on a stool next to his at the bar working on a Samuel Adams Cold Snap white ale. Augustin said he’s looking forward to ​“things actually changing” with a new president after four ​“tumultuous” years.Mingling amid the crowd, a cowboy hat-wearing Assa Abloy IT engineer Thomas Kilstrom boosted his brand as ​“The Handler” promoting a ​“Magnetic Movement” as an online influencer. He spoke of how it takes ​“a bold motherfucker” like Trump ​“to make change.”The sound came back on the Fox-tuned TV screens as Trump launched into his inaugural address. The barroom rebel cheers resumed when he declared a new policy that the U.S. would have only two official genders, that he would seal the border and deport immigrants en masse, that the U.S. would take back the Panama Canal and ​“drill baby drill!” He echoed sentiments spoken in the 144 Temple hall when he spoke of a ​“tide of change” that would upend ​“a radical and corrupt establishment” that ​“has extracted wealth from our citizens.”Elon Musk got a rousing cheer as well when the Fox News camera panned to him smiling at Trump’s promise to send people to Mars.Another event co-host, WDRC-AM morning host and former Newington State Rep. Gary Byron, took the stage after Trump finished speaking.“Now,” Byron reminded the crowd, ​“we have to turn Connecticut red.”Event co-organier Rapini, at right, at 144 Temple with WTNH and Capitol Report reporter Mike Cerulli. The front door to 144 Temple on Monday, Jan. 20.