Maxine Waters wants the violent left to understand she has their back, because “protest is about making you feel uncomfortable.”

Waters sat down with commentator Roland Martin for his show Unfiltered over the weekend to explain to the masses how they can “Be Woke” and fight back against bigotry, racism, discrimination, “political bullies” like President Trump and other boogiemen.

Martin pointed out that “sometimes you have to have some folks who will say, ‘No, no, we’ll handle this.’ You got to have folks who are willing to go toe to toe and say ‘I’m not going to back down from you.’”

Waters didn’t disagree, and instead defended protestors who have waged a public war against conservatives and Trump cabinet officials, many prompted by the 80-year-old congresswoman’s repeated calls to action.

“I told someone the other day, who is trying to say that we’re violent when we protest: ‘Protest is about making you feel uncomfortable. I’m not supposed to come to you and say, may I protest you. No, absolutely not!’” Waters said.

Leftist activists who have heckled conservatives at their homes and public venues, those who camp out at Trump rallies to spit at and curse attendees, and others who create riots when conservative speakers come to campus are simply searching their hearts and doing what they feel is right, Waters alleged.

“If your heart tells you this is what you need to do because you see some injustice. You see people who are creating a terrible time and pain for others, and you want to protest to try to make change, to try to make it right, then speak what your heart is telling you to do,” she said.

“It is because of protest that we’ve been able to make America better,” Waters continued. “We are the patriots who say we believe in this country and we believe it can be about justice and equality for everybody. And we can’t back up from that. We can’t allow anybody to intimidate us, and call us violent, and talk about somehow we are approaching the establishment in a terrible way.

“We can’t allow them to take away our right to protest,” she said.

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Waters alleged younger minorities are tired of conforming to a society that doesn’t give them everything they want and are now turning on the advice of their parents and elders to “become themselves” through ugly and violent clashes with their perceived political enemies.

“I think the young people … many of them have gone through life, graduated from college. They’ve been taught by their parents, now you be nice, and if you get that job I want you to dress right. I want you to speak the king’s English the way it’s supposed to be spoken. I don’t want you to cause any trouble, and maybe you’ll get a promotion,” she said.

“And so, they have done this. Many of them have graduated and can’t find the jobs comparable to their education. They’ve being discriminated against on the job. They’re being confronted with racism on the job, and they’re still trying to abide by what their mothers and their fathers and their grandmothers told them to do,” Waters said. “And they’ve gotten angry. And they’ve gotten tired of that. And they don’t believe in any of us because what they’ve been taught has not worked for them. It’s not fair. So when they see change and those willing to speak truth to power and to confront racism, etcetera, I think it’s allowing them to become themselves and to think the thoughts and talk about them in a very vocal way. In ways that they had not done before.

“And so I’m pleased about that, and I’m looking forward to the millennials really making a difference in not only this midterm election, but certainly in 2020.”

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Waters, who previously called the president “the most deplorable, most despicable human being,” has consistently called for Trump’s impeachment everywhere she goes, from AIDS fundraisers to eulogies at funerals.

She’s also promised to “get” Vice President Mike Pence once Democrats impeach Trump. Over the summer, Waters drew criticism from both parties when she called on mobs of protestors to publicly harass Trump supporters.

In June, Waters declared “God is on our side” when she served marching orders to her followers:

“If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd,” she said. “You push back on them. Tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!”

Waters is expected to coast to re-election in her Democrat dominated Los Angeles district. She’s poised to gain control over the House Financial Services Committee if Democrats take control of Congress in Tuesday’s election and has already promised to use the post to target Trump.