Joan Walsh on Trump Getting the Bird: ‘I Don’t See How Giving Someone the Finger Is Not Inclusion’

Joan Walsh on Trump Getting the Bird: ‘I Don’t See How Giving Someone the Finger Is Not Inclusion’ (The Washington Free Beacon)

National affairs correspondent for The Nation Joan Walsh said Thursday that a woman who flipped off President Donald Trump was being inclusive, from a certain point of view.

Appearing on MSNBC’s "The Beat," Walsh took issue with guest Carrie Sheffield’s criticism of the tactics of the so-called Trump resistance. Sheffield argued that the bicyclist Juli Briskman had the right to give Trump's passing motorcade the finger but noted that such action gives the resistance little right to criticism Trump’s rhetoric.

"The response I’ve seen from the resistance I’ve found very troubling because it's mirroring and doing the same thing [as Trump]," Sheffield said. "They say, ‘We have tolerance, inclusion.’ I don't see that happening."