‘It was just unconscionable’: Cori Bush on her fight to extend the eviction moratorium

The congresswoman's protest on the Capitol steps may have been unconventional - but she didn't come to Washington to play by the old rules.

When Cori Bush decided to camp out on the steps of the US Capitol for four days to protest against the end of the eviction moratorium, people insinuated her behavior was unbecoming of a congresswoman.

Shameless and embarrassing," was what Matt Walsh, the self-described theocratic fascist" radio host called it. Ben Shapiro called the protest stupid," meanwhile, Bush's local paper, the St Louis Post Dispatch, wrote that her righteous-sounding aspirations" did not seem to take into account political reality."