Coming off the heels of political chaos at the border, Americans are still feeling emotionally affected by Trump’s family separation immigration policy.
According to the Washington Post, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant, called the Red Hen, while out to dinner with friends.
“The cheese course was already on the table” when the owner pulled her to the side and asked that she leave because of her political party’s policies.
The Post reported that the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, politely refused to serve Sanders because “Sanders works for and defends an inhumane and unethical administration.”
“I’m not a huge fan of confrontation,” Wilkinson said. “I have a business, and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.”
However, the decision to ask Sanders to leave seems to boil down to basic human ethics rather than because of her being simply a conservative.
Just last week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen was heckled by a crowd of protesters while eating at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C.
According to CNN, Nielsen was sitting quietly in back of the MXDC Cocina Mexicana restaurant, not too far from the White House, when she began getting booed and sarcastically questioned:
“Aren’t you a mother too”
“How do you sleep at night”
“Do you hear the babies crying”
“If the kids don’t eat in peace, you don’t eat in peace.”
Those are many examples of statements that seem to have less to do with being a Republican, and more to do with being undoubtedly immoral.
Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney and political op-ed contributor for CNN, expressed similar observations regarding recent oppositions.
“Let’s make it clear, this is not about asking someone to leave or heckling them simply because they are Republicans or conservatives,” he wrote.
“That would be wrong. This is about targeting people who are very publicly involved in formulating and defending Trump’s immoral policies.”
Obeidallah pointed out that people didn’t yell, “Get out of here because you’re a Republican” but instead made chants that were specific to Trump’s family separation immigration policy literally, “speaking truth to power.”
Additionally, Trump is just a percentage point away from former President Richard Nixon when it comes to the total of Americans who want him impeached, according to Newsweek.
And though Sanders was offended by Wilkinson requesting that she leave by ironically writing, “I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so. Her actions say far more about her than about me,” Wilkinson has no regrets.
“I would have done the same thing again,” Wilkinson said. “We just felt there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions. This appeared to be one.”
