According to Trump Advisor Stephen Moore, Stay-at-Home Order Protesters Are the 'Modern-Day Rosa

[TexasTowelie]

According to Trump Advisor Stephen Moore, Stay-at-Home Order Protesters Are the 'Modern-Day Rosa Parks'


After encouraging rallies against stay-at-home orders on Twitter, President Trump praised the protesters during his Friday press briefing, describing them as being "very responsible." And conservative commentator Stephen Moore, one of the president's economic advisors, has been taking this praise even further, dubbing the protesters, who risk furthering the spread of a virus that has already claimed more than 30,000 American lives, the "modern-day Rosa Parks."

In his daily pandemic briefing, Trump defended protesters in states like Kentucky and North Carolina who've congregated in defiance of stay-at-home orders to demand that restrictions on businesses and movement be lifted. "These are people expressing their views," Trump told members of the press. "I see where they are and I see the way they’re working. They seem to be very responsible people to me, but they’ve been treated a little bit rough."

While scattered protesters are defying stay-at-home orders, the measures are broadly popular among Americans. Trump's remarks followed three tweets he published earlier the same day, all-caps missives urging governors to "LIBERATE" Michigan, Minnesota, and Virginia. Due to her criticism of the federal coronavirus response, Michigan's Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer has become one of Trump's current bétes noires, and the state's rallies, which have found many protesters sporting Trump gear, signal the deep partisan divide over the pandemic.

Moore, who Trump recently named to a bipartisan economic revitalization committee, has lavished the protesters with more effusive and offensive praise. As HuffPost notes, he's made a habit of comparing attendees of anti-stay-at-home rallies—some of whom have been spotted carrying Confederate flags—to Civil Rights hero Rosa Parks.

Read more: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32195452/stephen-moore-trump-protesters-rosa-parks/

[rusty quoin]

1. I really feel bad for the truely desperate shuffled into those rallies.

There are people who go to these because they need food.

[rockfordfile]

4. BS there's nobody going to these un-American right-wing riots for food

[applegrove]

2. They steal our totems. They know a good many Trump voters admired Rosa

Parks in their past because some were Democrats in their youth when she was a hero. So Moore is normalizing Trump and the GOP playing with fire on COVID-19.

[Celerity]

5. they were the type of Democrats (Dixiecrats) who would have lynched Parks if they could have nt

[Cicada]

3. Why are all the protesters white?

Are the protesters just Trump supporters?

[Celerity]

6. most, but not all

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[Jamaal510]

12. "Newsome"

They can't even spell his name right!

[Thekaspervote]

7. The Nazi speaks

[Celerity]

8. I think you are conflating this guy with Stephen Miller, not that Moore is a good guy at all

Miller



Moore

[Chainfire]

9. They are confusing Rosa Parks

with Typhoid Mary.

[Gothmog]

10. These people should be publicly identified and named, barred from treatment at any public hospital

Link to tweet

[spanone]

11. mr. moore is a fucking idiot