Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has characterized Republican lawmakers as “domestic terrorists” and “extremists,” insisting that she hopes people won’t continue to elect them, a statement that attracted criticism from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).
Waters was asked about the prospect of police reform in Congress during an interview for “Ayman” on MSNBC on Saturday.
She called GOP members of Congress the “Marjorie Taylor Greene Republican caucus” and insisted that she doesn’t expect any police reform on the federal level.
“We have these right-wing conservatives who are, you know—we have domestic terrorists in the House of Representatives. These people are extremists,” she said. “So I am not optimistic that that is the way that it is going to happen until the people of this country really decide that they do not want it, and they are not going to elect people who act in the fashion that they act.”…