Sarah Sanders Slams Reporter Questioning Value of ‘Civility’

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There’s a growing narrative on the left that says civility is dead.

President Trump, liberals attest, killed it by saying that illegal immigrants who come to our country aren’t all Bible-reading fathers of small children yearning to breath free. Trump had the audacity to suggest people who come here and break our immigration laws in the process aren’t always great people.

Since then, it’s been open season on civility. And it all came to a head recently when Rep. Maxine Waters encouraged her liberal supporters to harass Trump Administration officials anywhere they see them. (RELATED: Maxine Waters Calls for Violence Against Trump Supporters).

Now liberals are in an open war with civility and are harassing Trump Administration officials and supporters in public. (RELATED: Another Pro-Trump Government Official Is Chased Out of a Public Building).

You can now see this narrative bleed over into the media’s questioning of the Administration. During a recent press briefing in the White House, a reporter asked Press Secretary Sarah Sanders why she is defending civility as a basic concept when her boss enacted an uncivil policy of separating families at the border.

It was at that point, Sanders strapped on the gloves, and gave him a rhetorical beating he’ll never forget.

Here’s some of Sanders’s great response:

It wasn’t our administration that created these laws but it is our administration’s job to enforce it and we’ve done that. If someone breaks the law, it is our job to enforce it. If somebody doesn’t like the law, then they need to lobby Congress and ask them to change it.

Sanders went on further to smack down another clueless reporter who doesn’t understand the distinction between enforcing an existing law and making one up on the spot:

Sanders is exactly right. Before President Trump rescinded the law to not separate families, the Administration was only obeying laws put on the books through Congress and a federal court decision. It wasn’t a good policy. Many in the Administration, including President Trump, hated to do it. But they did it anyway because that’s the executive branch’s job.

And yes, it sounds terrible to say, but following the law to a tee is civil. It’s the capricious and arbitrary changing of laws that is uncivil and is borderline tyrannical.

Of course, the media refuses to understand this distinction, because they get giddy over a strong executive wielding the full force of government to pursue their own ends.

If that’s the media’s idea of civil – an unaccountable chief executive unencumbered by Congress – I’d really hate to be on their idea of the receiving end of incivility. Unfortunately for Sarah Sanders, I think she’s experienced the ugly side of liberal incivility already.

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