A video posted on Twitter shows people evidently associated with the right-wing group Moms for Liberty getting heckled at a location in Philadelphia known as Reading Terminal Market, which is essentially an indoor farmer’s market open very regularly where some of the booths are restaurants.
Moms for Liberty was hosting a convention in the city, known for its Democratic politics. The clip showing a small group of people associated with that larger organization facing the ire of locals was shared on Twitter by a Pennsylvania journalist identified as Sean Kitchen. In the footage, someone apparently offscreen can be heard talking about how racists are unwelcome there as the individuals associated with Moms for Liberty make a quick and obviously harried departure from the scene. It’s obviously just imprecise conjecture, but based on the body language of those group participants, they seem extremely… not thrilled with the way things went when they tried to visit that historic eating and shopping establishment.
Moms for Liberty has been involved in some of the recent attacks on the integrity and reasonable independence of the educational system that have been seen from conservatives nationwide, and the group was holding a convention, where even Donald Trump himself spoke, in Philly. “You have proven beyond all doubt that there is no earthly force more powerful than the love of a mother for her children — that’s true,” Trump said, in remarks it didn’t sound like he wrote himself (Do you really think he cares that much about someone whose name doesn’t rhyme with stump?). “In school board races, PTA meetings and town halls across the nation, you have taught the radical left Marxists and communists a lesson they will never forget: don’t mess with America’s moms.”
Ron DeSantis, the Republican currently serving as governor of Florida who’s also making a longshot bid for president, was also set to attend the Moms for Liberty gathering. The organization itself originates in Florida, though it has spread across what’s apparently nearly every state, with many chapters. Watch the heckling video below:
Trying to get a canoli and found m4l people getting heckled in the Reading Terminal pic.twitter.com/n8NUQKcg0J
— Sean Kitchen (@pennslinger) June 30, 2023
