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Progressives Taking “the Resistance” to a New Level
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) thrust herself into the limelight of a fawning media this past week when she told supporters at a rally that Trump administration officials and workers should be confronted in their everyday lives without letup.
“If you think we’re rallying now you ain’t seen nothing yet,” Waters told supporters at a Los Angeles rally last weekend. “If you see anybody,” she added, “from that [Trump] Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Waters sees Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ ejection from the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, VA as the perfect platform for inciting left-wing intolerance that extends far beyond her. Grassroots activists and the mainstream media is ensuring that her brand of mob intimidation has plenty of fuel to keep it burning for a long time to come.
“Already you have members of your cabinet that are being booed out of restaurants. We have protesters taking up at their house who are saying, ‘No peace, no sleep. No peace, no sleep,’” Waters told a liberal crowd, pledging to “win this battle.”
A pattern of left-wing sponsored intimidation, disruption, and threats is already developing.
A protestor drummed Trump adviser Stephen Miller out of a Mexican restaurant on June 17, calling him a “fascist.” On June 20, Univision-owned news site Splinter published his personal cell phone number to the public.
Far Left activists chased Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant on June 19. Three days later, CREDO Action, a progressive grassroots organization, organized a protest in front of Nielsen’s home on Friday.
A few days later, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Trump supporter, faced a hostile reception when she attended a documentary on children’s TV host, Mr. Rogers. Protesters followed Bondi outside the theater yelling, “shame on you!” and “you’re a horrible person!”
Bondi says that she and a friend were continually harassed while buying tickets, entering the theater, standing in line at the concession stand and then as they left. The protestors were yelling loudly and one intimated he wanted to fight.
A left-wing New York University professor created a database of over 1,500 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees’ personal information.
The problem has grown far beyond protestors accidentally bumping into a ripe target of their hatred. Sam Lavigne, an adjunct professor at New York University released a list of over 1,500 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees’ personal information last Wednesday. The database included information such as approximate locations, job titles, and profile pictures. When asked by Fox News why he felt the need to disseminate such personal information, Lavigne said:
“As ICE continues to ramp up its inhumane surveillance and detention efforts, I believe it’s important to document what’s happening, and by whom, in any way we can.”
Though more prevalent now, such harassment has been occurring since President Trump was elected. Last February, 71-year-old California Representative Dana Rohrbacher was knocked unconscious by angry protesters outside her office.
In 2016, a North Carolina GOP office was firebombed a month before the election and a building adjacent to it was spray painted with the message: “Nazi Republicans get out of town or else.”
Michael Beschloss, a Presidential historian, worries that the flare-ups are “a new disheartening sign of a country that is becoming more divided by the hour. It is almost beginning to sound like some of the things that happened before the Civil War. It’s a polarized country. But it is an extremely polarizing president.”
Perhaps Trump is polarizing because, unlike presidents before him, he has pushed back against a firmly entrenched mainstream media that encourages people like Maxine Water.
CNN’s Jim Acosta told Variety Magazine this past April that Trump’s criticisms of the press could result in people who “don’t have all their faculties” to physically attack a reporter. However, it isn’t Republicans encouraging violence but a media darling like Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
~ Freedom News Report