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Civility alert: Stephanie Needs to be Kinder to Medford Residents...
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Can’t we all just get along, or even get dinner?
Just last year, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s security chief defended the need for his boss to fly in first class to avoid hostile confrontations with the “vulgar” and “threatening” occupants of coach-class seats. Pruitt was widely mocked for his expensive tastes, and for the presumption that public officials should be shielded, at public expense, from expressions of opinion by members of the public. But since then, the breakdown in civility that began during the 2016 campaign with chants of “Lock her up” has accelerated, with a prominent Democratic House member, Rep. Maxine Waters of California, calling over the weekend for what amounts to vigilante harassment of administration officials in public places.
In a video posted on YouTube, Waters exhorted a crowd to confront Trump Cabinet members “in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station. [Y]ou get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
