The fact that some left-wing activists decided to follow Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema into the bathroom while recording her is gross. But it really isn’t much of a surprise. A segment of left-wing activists has made harassing political opponents a regular exercise.
The activists who followed Sinema into a bathroom while pressing her for not supporting President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan were part of the activist group Living United for Change in Arizona. A collection of activists last month also hounded Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin at his houseboat over his opposition to the $3.5 trillion plan. They came from a collection of groups, including Greenpeace USA and CASA, which the Hill describes as “the largest grassroots immigrant advocacy organization in the mid-Atlantic area.”
Aaron Blake of the Washington Post wants you to think the Jan. 6 riot and GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia make this a bipartisan problem. But it isn’t bipartisan. These kinds of protests, which are designed to remind people that they can’t escape from politics, are a regular occurrence among left-wing activists and, indeed, a natural outgrowth of their left-wing ideology. While recording a female senator in a bathroom is certainly a new twist, these protests typically target people at their homes and in their private lives — for example, when they are dining in restaurants.
Protesters just last month went to the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh over his decision to decline an emergency request to block Texas’s “heartbeat” abortion law. The same group that led that protest, ShutDownDC, also led protests at the homes of former Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and GOP Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley.
Protesters in 2020 went to the home of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to complain that the Senate was going to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And then there is the disgusting harassment of former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai because of the frantic panic over net neutrality, which also included visits to his home.
Protesters went to the home of former Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican, back in 2018. Left-wing protesters flocked to the homes of Democratic mayors in cities such as Portland and Seattle when the cities saw regular protests (and riots) in 2020. Even the protesters who gathered at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home were protesting her from the Left.
This has become a regular occurrence in our politics, thanks in part to an attitude that Democrats have fostered. Democrats treat every political issue as a five-alarm fire. Every issue, from the reconciliation bill to abortion to net neutrality to the Supreme Court, will destroy your life and potentially even cause people to die.
So it isn’t a surprise that Sinema is being harassed in a bathroom. It’s a natural extension of the protest culture that Democrats and their hysterical behavior bring to every political issue.
