As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) left a restaurant in Louisville Saturday, a crowd of protestors followed him through the parking lot, chanting about ICE and the border crisis.
At the time, per the Washington Post, hundreds of protestors were posted up outside of the nearby Louisville Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office.
A handful of protestors waited outside the restaurant, crying “where are the children?” and “vote you out” and “where are the babies, Mitch?”
One man lobbed personal insults, saying “we know where you live” and calling the Senator a “turtle head.”
Per the Post, another man drove up in a convertible after McConnell and his dining companions silently got into their car and left. He angrily addressed the protestors, saying: “Let them live their lives. It’s none of your fucking business.”
This is not the first time McConnell has faced public protests in recent days, as he and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, were confronted at Georgetown University by a group of students over the family separations.
Protestors have been favoring the public showdowns since the family separations became widely publicized, addressing many Trump administration officials while they were out to eat.
Oh, the incivility. Let him pack the Supreme Court in peace.
You should ask someone who gives a fuck
It sure ain’t Mitch
They’re just collateral damage on the path to making the rich richer
McConnell was once of the moderate Republican stripe who was aghast at the Bircher types who engaged in the Mink Coat riots in Texas and harassment on the floor of the 1964 RNC convention. Now he’s become one of them and it comes back to bite him.
And Madame Nhu also doesn’t seem too pleased.
Kidnapping children for extortion is proving unpopular with the constituents with normal emotional responses.
Mitch McConnell has none such, so he won’t care.
I’m not a hand-wringer on this incivility stuff. He’s condoned absolutely astonishing crimes. If it wasn’t rude and offensive to hang war criminals at Nuremberg it isn’t uncivil to yell at them when they’re walking down a sidewalk. However, comparing people to animals they may resemble still rubs me the wrong way. He may well look like a turtle, but that’s not his fault. Looking like a turtle is more unfortunate than wrong or bad. It doesn’t advance your argument to point it out. Call him a kidnaper. That really ought to be enough.