Rep. Maxine Waters

Maxine Waters is right; the hell with civility.

Too many Democrats insist on being kind and sweet and gentle in the face of madness, trying to convince the rest of us that polite behavior will slay the beast. Try petting an alligator and you’ll draw back a nub.

“No one should call for the harassment of political opponents. That’s not right. That’s not American,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer last week in response to Rep. Maxine Waters’ comments when she advocated aggressively pushing back against the Trump administration.

Here’s what she said:

“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere. We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents.

“We don’t know what damage has been done to these children. All that we know is they’re in cages. They’re in prisons. They’re in jails. I don’t care what they call it, that’s where they are and Mr. President, we will see you every day, every hour of the day, everywhere that we are to let you know you cannot get away with this.”

Waters was responding to an earlier story where poor widdle White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders was discharged from a local restaurant…