The essence of the matter

I'm not at all fond of what-about-ism as an instrument of point-making, but Michael Brown at Townhall makes clear that a question of basic morality is at stake in the Maxine Waters exhortation:

Rep. Waters, do you know how millions of us felt during the presidency of Barack Obama? How deeply grieved we were by his pro-abortion zeal? By his saying, “God bless you” to Planned Parenthood? By his speaking of an unwanted teen pregnancy as a punishment?

As pro-life Americans, his statements and actions were outrageous to us. But it never crossed our minds to kick his press secretary, Josh Earnest, out of a restaurant. And it certainly never crossed the minds of Republican leaders to call for such things. To do so is to draw a very dangerous line and to set a very ugly precedent.

Rep. Waters, do you realize how upset we were when President Obama “changed” his position on homosexuality, becoming a champion for same-sex “marriage” after emphatically saying he rejected it as a Christian? (I say “changed” because it’s fairly clear he lied about his earlier “Christian” view, falsely claiming that his views had recently evolved.)

For millions of evangelicals, there is nothing more sacred than the life of a baby in the womb and the sanctity of God-ordained (male-female) marriage. And our previous president led a frontal assault against both those fronts.

What if we had kicked you out of one of our restaurants because of your support for him? Would you have said, “I respect your convictions, and you have acted honorably?” I think not. 

You see, we're not just talking about separating kids from parents in the matter of abortion (although the kid getting killed certainly does accomplish that separation). We're talking about limbs getting separated from torsos. And in the case of homosexual "marriage," we're talking about openly mocking God's design for the most basic unit of human societal organization.

Here's the thing: I honestly don't think Maxine Waters is outraged about border policy. This is her current vehicle for whipping up mob frenzy and thereby facilitating the amassing of power for the jackboot cabal.

A lot of leftists start out believing all that stuff about "fairness' and "equality" but once they get a taste of power, that's what it becomes all about.