Missed most of the Maxine Waters discourse yesterday, but it's funny that after months of Dem hand-wringing about how they handled protests last year, the 82-year old chair of the Financial Services Committee committee decided protesters needed to hear from her
Waters turns 84 this term, part of this story is the "never retire" mindset that gave Democrats popular hits like a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS and Alcee Hastings's seat being vacant indefinitely
The problem here isn't a politician giving a speech to protesters - it happens all the time, you usually don't hear about it bc they're careful not to say stuff that would look bad if violence breaks out
Waters just keeps stumbling her way into these stories, from saying she wanted to "take Trump out" in 2017 from telling protesters to "create a crowd and push back" against Trump officials in 2018. Most Dems agree with protesters yet manage to not make these gaffes.
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