Yes, it’s beyond ridiculous for Republicans to display selective outrage about Waters when they spent the last four years not just ignoring but enabling Trump’s conduct – much of which was aimed at dividing the country along on racial, ethnic and gender lines.īut simply because that is undeniably true doesn’t mean that Democrats – especially Democratic elected officials like Waters – should have carte blanche to say and do whatever they want. And several of whom circulated a flier last week promoting the creation of the “America First” caucus that promised, among other things to foster “common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” (The caucus has apparently been scrapped.) – continue to insist, contra all available evidence, that Trump was cheated out of the election.
And many of whom – Mo Brooks, Jim Jordan, etc. And because almost 150 House Republicans voted to oppose the Electoral College results after that riot. Yes, it is more than a little rich for Republicans to express outrage about incitement given that former President Donald Trump quite clearly incited the crowd at the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally – which led directly to the violent insurrection at the US Capitol. McCarthy made it official late Monday, saying in a statement that he is introducing a censure resolution against Waters. “If Speaker Pelosi doesn’t act against this dangerous rhetoric, I will bring action this week.” “Maxine Waters is inciting violence in Minneapolis - just as she has incited it in the past,” tweeted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican.
In both instances – the one in 2018 and this latest one – Republicans demanded that House Democrats punish Waters for what they took to be dangerous incitement. “If you see anybody from that 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.” At a rally in June 2018, which came shortly after then White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had been kicked out of a restaurant, Waters said this to crowd at a rally: Of course, this isn’t the first time she’s done something like this. THE POINT - NOW ON YOUTUBE! In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Republicans will jump on any word, any line and try to make it fit their message and their cause for denouncing us and denying us.” He told the defense that Waters’ comments may be grounds for the case to be overturned on appeal.ĭefending herself to theGrio in an interview, Waters said, “I am nonviolent. “I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function,” said Judge Peter Cahill. The judge in the case admonished Waters on Monday for her comments. It’s especially irresponsible coming from an elected official like Waters. That sort of rhetoric – at a moment of such heightened tensions – is irresponsible coming from anyone. Waters said that if Chauvin is not found guilty – closing arguments in the case began Monday – then “we’ve got to get more confrontational.” And she said it in a city that has seen protests and arrests in its streets for the last week. There’s not much dot-connecting necessary here. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.” We get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. “I hope we get a verdict that says guilty, guilty, guilty,” she said in response to reporters’ questions. (Wright was killed when a police officer apparently grabbed her gun rather than her Taser to restrain him.) Maxine Waters did over the weekend in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, at a Black Lives Matter rally to protest the killing of Daunte Wright. Which is the opposite of what California Democratic Rep. Our elected officials – from President Joe Biden on down – need to urge calm and restraint while reminding people of our common humanity. It’s in these situations when the country’s leaders need to, well, lead. It’s a fraught moment – coming after four years of a president who weaponized race (and racists) for his political benefit and the mounting evidence of how race unduly influences policing.
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Minnesota – and the rest of the country – is on a knife’s edge waiting for a verdict in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer charged in the death of George Floyd.
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