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As the California wildfires continued to consume large swaths of land, destroy homes, gut businesses, and take lives, a Democratic Congresswoman from the state went on television and offered up a galaxy-brain scapegoat. Maxine Waters once famously urged her supporters to angrily confront Trump administration officials out in public. She instructed them to “create a crowd” to “push back” in order to send a message that such people are “not welcome anymore, anywhere.” Mob tactics. Fast forward to recent days, and she’s taken to reciting a stale, partisan, irrelevant talking point as her party’s leadership failures in her home state have grown increasingly undeniable. After saying she doesn’t want to assign blame earlier in the interview, she immediately started blaming…wealthy people for not paying their “fair taxes” because “services cost money:”
