Barak Obama started a trend of confrontation which continues to this day and if we don’t get a handle on it it may destroy this country.
Breitbart: Lawmakers and Leftists Continue to Push ‘Get in Their Face’ Tactics
Lawmakers and Leftists Continue to Push ‘Get in Their Face’ Tactics
9 Oct 20181,129
The idea that it is a good thing to confront, intimidate, and even rough up people with whom you disagree to advance a political agenda dates back to community organizer and former President Barack Obama but is reaching new levels of hostility since the election of President Donald Trump.
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Obama said on the presidential campaign trail in September 2008. “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican.”
“I want you to argue with them and get in their face,” Obama said.
Fast forward to 2018 when lawmakers and activists are encouraging confrontations with members of Congress who disagree with them or support Trump.
The latest rant took place on Saturday ahead of the confirmation vote on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when protesters gathered on the steps of the high court, including Jennifer Epps-Addison, network president and co-executive director at the leftist Center for Popular Democracy.
“If you think a few women were getting up in their faces at an airport, if they thought of us calmly saying, ‘Listen to survivors’ was enough to shake and intimidate them, well, wait till they go home,” Epps-Addison said. “Wait till they go to the state fair. Wait till they go to the coffee shop. Wait till they go to the movies. Wait till they go anywhere we see them.”
“Make your voice heard,” Epps-Addison said. “Do not be calm. Do not be silenced. Do not be patient.”
Leftists continue to get marching orders from elected officials, including Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).
In June, Waters told her supporters at a rally in Los Angeles to “push back.”
”Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up,” Waters said. “And 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,” Water said. “And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Booker gave similar advice in July at the National Conference on Ending Homelessness.
“Please don’t just come here today and then go home,” Booker said. ”Go to the Hill today. Get up and, please, get up in the face of some congresspeople.”
Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) wife, Kelley, recently wrote an open letter to Booker expressing her anguish over the harm done to her husband after a neighbor attacked him. She shared other “horrifying” threats the family has faced and called on Booker to condemn the ongoing threats and violence.
Watch – Rand Paul’s Wife: I Sleep with a Loaded Gun Thanks to Leftists’ Threats
The same angry anti-Kavanaugh protesters confronted Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) recently at an airport.
And in June, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and her guests were thrown out of a restaurant in rural Virginia after the owner refused to serve them because of Sanders’ service in the Trump administration.
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It was the sexual assaulter and draft dodger in chief that called for his mob to abuse protesters, offering to pay thier legal bills. Also praised Neo-Nazis as good people. Meanwhile, he continues to rape the middle class to enrich his friends. Shame on the ignorant.
Both black lives matters and the KKK are radical groups. Obama and black lives matters got more law enforcement people killed than Trump ever will.
Oh, Barak started it, did he. So what do you call all the protesters over the years prior to Obama?
You are a troll who has been banned from the conservative group.
You're not allowed in their group either? Too bad for you! LOL
It's not really a conservative group anyway. Conservatives that don't worship Dear Leader Trump aren't allowed in that safe space either.
Once I see the slant of this piece you think I'm going to agree with you in any way because you think your hero is the real patriot on the page? Trump said he "leveled the playing field" by holding a rally to tear down Blasey Ford. He should have just kept his mouth shut. He now says that Kavanaugh was "found innocent." Really. I didn't know there was a trial. A fact check of this same man Trump shows upwards of 6000 lies and counting so far. Yes, even his tweets are saved and put on the Internet for all to see and do their own research if they like. Trump, the man that publically mocked a crippled reporter. He seems to have mocked many people. As for Sarah Sanders, I don't know how she does her job. I could not stand up there and tell that many lies to the American people.
I can only assume, Trajan, that you have really drank the koolaid. This is not about the Dems and the GOP or about 1950's communism and socialism. It's about the survival of this country as we know it. Sometimes you have to "get in their face" to be heard and I'm telling everyone I know to vote blue in November and beyond.
Civility toward oppressors merely allows them to continue to oppress unchallenged. Women, minorities, victims, etc have been silenced for generations. And we’re not going to stand for it anymore.
No one is saying commit violence. But we will not be silenced anymore.