This is Cory Booker.
At around 4 minutes into this chummy self-congratulatory townhall with Senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Cory Booker of New Jersey, they are heckled by a woman outraged by American complicity in the genocide of Gaza. Booker sits silently while she is escorted out by the police while the moderator comforts the crowd that “we do care.”
After she is escorted out, Booker then says “I applaud what she did here. There are veterans here who fought for the right of free speech, fought for the right to protest, and this is the traditions from which we come.” He goes on to acknowledge the abolitionists, those “noble people who stood up” he calls them while remaining seated, in the suffrage movement, in the civil rights movement. “I hear their voices,” Booker adds. He goes on to tell a long story about a lawyer, inspired by the civil rights movement that he was watching on tv from his couch, who fought to improve housing access for African-American families, got housing for a family and that forty-three years later, the baby in that family was elected the fourth black person to the Senate. “So I am here because one person on a couch, during a moral moment, didn’t just sit there. He got up and did something.” Booker remains sitting while he makes the point, caught up in his own self-serving narrative, oblivious to his own cowardice and inaction during a genocide. This Cory Booker.