Democrats have continued to paint first-term Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as representative of the Republican Party. They ought to remove the beam from their own eye.
Democrats have been propping up Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters for decades, even though she is every bit as awful.
Waters has most recently said that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin must be found “guilty, guilty, guilty” of first-degree homicide, or else “we’ve got to get more confrontational.” Aside from the fact that Chauvin has not been charged with first-degree homicide, consider that she is basically advocating for more of last summer’s rioting, arson, and looting in order to intimidate a jury into returning the verdict she wants.
Rep. Maxine Waters showed up at the protest tonight in Brooklyn Center, telling people “we’ve got to get more confrontational” and suggesting they should ignore the curfew. pic.twitter.com/4FcfhIoaJf
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) April 18, 2021
Calling for “more confrontation” is kind of her thing. In 2018, she said people should “create a crowd” and “push back” on members of the Trump administration in restaurants, department stores, and at gas stations. When a troll account earlier this year used the exact quote, replacing Donald Trump’s name with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, several Democrats rushed to condemn, including Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York, saying it was “inciting political violence.”
Well, yeah. It was. When Waters said it.
Torres sits on the House Financial Services Committee, chaired by none other than Maxine Waters. Greene was removed from her committees by Democrats (a step Republicans should have taken themselves), but they will do nothing to discipline Waters, who has been in Congress for 30 years.
Greene foolishly pushed the idea that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Waters has pushed that same conspiracy for the last three presidential elections that Democrats have lost. In her view, Republicans have not legitimately won an election since the turn of the century. Waters is a conspiracy theorist, to the point that she kept pushing inane theories of Trump colluding with Russian President Vladimir Putin despite admitting that she had no evidence.
Whether you think Republicans have dealt with Greene as well as they should, she has at least been rightfully pushed back into her own corner of the party. Waters, by contrast, has become a Democratic icon who chairs a powerful House committee. She is never held to account by her own party for her ridiculous conspiracy theories or her inflammatory rhetoric. Instead, she is put on a pedestal.
By ignoring Waters’s comments, Democrats show that they don’t really care about lying about election results or “inciting political violence.” They are happy to accommodate such behavior, as long as it comes from one of their own.
And by expelling Greene from her committees, they now give Republicans license to do the same when they retake the House majority, which could happen as soon as the 2022 midterm elections. Waters may have just vaulted to the top of the list, as Democrats are almost certain not to reprimand her themselves in any way.
