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

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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."

Trump's remarks followed three tweets he published earlier the same day, feeding protest fervor with 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.

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

Wipe the orange feces from your lips Moore.

[Iliyah]

1. That is a slap in the face . . .

p.s. the protester and second wave, and I will be blaming shithole and the republican party.

[Caliman73]

2. Totally apt comparison.

Remember how Rosa Parks didn't give up her seat on the bus to boost the economy for millionaires? She was a great woman for standing up for the rights of corporations to get back to making money in exchange for putting their workers and the rest of the population into risk of serious injury and death.

The reason why these idiots have to compare their stupid ass astroturf groups to actual activists is because they have no social legitimacy. Those "protesters" are fighting for the power structure against their own health and economic interests. Parks was fighting against the power structure for the rights of marginalized people just to be able to participate in daily life.

[kysrsoze]

3. Ah, Stephen Moore... the eonomist with no economic education. So uniquely qualified...

for nothing.

[underpants]

10. Stephen MoorON

What a complete joke he is.

[deminks]

4. IIRC, Ms. Parks did not have a US pretzeldente cabinet secretary paying for her protest.

IIRC.

[mzmolly]

5. lol

[tanyev]

6. I'd forgotten that Ms. Parks was fighting for her right to get clobbered by a bus.

[lunatica]

7. They all obviously flunked American History in high school

That’s the only explanation that makes sense.

Those racists have no idea who Rosa Parks is if they think she’s some advocate for their cause

[Crunchy Frog]

8. More like Typhoid Marys. This is more RW gaslighting, which they are experts at. n/t

[badhair77]

9. Stephen Moore is an active organizer of the protests.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trump-supporters-protest-coronavirus-orders

Scroll down toward the end - there’s a paragraph about Moore and the leader of the Tea Party along with the head of Freedom Works. These are not grassroots protests.

[lame54]

11. Corosa Parks

[treestar]

12. Does he really believe that COVID19 is a hoax?

Does he not get that more people will get the virus? Or is he one of those who thinks it is better for a lot of people to get sick and die than for the economy to suffer?

[Alacritous Crier]

13. Once again...

there's no low too low.

[Doodley]

14. Rosa Parks was standing up for equal rights that didn't put thousands of lives at risk.

[Takket]

15. i cannot even put into words how offensive this is..........

[GoCubsGo]

16. Oh, go crawl back under your rock, you scumbag.

Rosa Parks had more guts and integrity in her little finger than the whole fucking lot of those selfish lunatics put together.

[GoCubsGo]

17. And, just a reminder about this racist asshole:

Link to tweet