What if refusing to serve Sarah Sanders was not the first step on a slippery slope to rampant political discrimination in restaurants and shops and instead was a reasonable of act of civil disobedience against an administration that has violated all norms?
This administration has chosen cruelty, illegality, anti-Constitutionality and incipient authoritarianism as its tools. It is not a "Republican" administration. It is an anti-American administration and profound threat to the American way of life.
In our system, ordinary people are entitled to find ways to protest that. Sarah Sanders wasn't denied her seat in the restaurant because of politics as usual, because she was a Republican. She was denied it because she is complicit in racism, misogyny, lying...
...cruelty, indecency, and other grossly hostile acts against the America people. What the Trump administration is doing is not normal. The only way to send that message is through lawful acts that say we will not accept it as normal and we will challenge it.
I understand that the GOP itself is the most likely to abuse this distinction (as their stance on not serving people because of their sexual orientation demonstrates). But that is not a reason, in a national crisis, to accept the simpering pleas of bullies like Sanders.
Every citizen has a responsibility to act in ways consistent with the laws, their consciences and the circumstances of the moment. It seems to me that happened in Sanders' case and Nielsen's case and that it won't be a bad thing if it happens again. These are not normal times.
