Hey, Mike Kelly. Here’s some practical advice.

Watch how Maxine Waters operates. You might learn something from your colleague in California. The Democratic congresswoman is as politically adept as they come.

On Saturday, “Auntie Maxine,” as her constituents fondly call her, went on a shouting rampage during a toy drive in Washington. She urged people to harass officials in the Trump administration in public because, she said, the president is “sacrificing our children” when he clings to a policy of separating illegal immigrant children from their parents when they cross the border into the United States.

She was referring to a recent incident involving Kristjen Nielson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who was heckled in a Washington restaurant, and later had protesters playing loud speakers outside her home, after Nielson testified in defense of Trump’s policy.

What Waters did next was sheer rhetorical genius.

“And guess what,” she said, “we’re going to win this battle because while you try and quote the Bible, (Attorney General) Jeff Sessions and others, you really don’t know the Bible. “God is on our side! On the side of the children. On the side of what’s right. On the side of what’s honorable.”

Mr. Kelly, did you catch that not-so-subtle maneuver? God, Maxine Waters and the children on the good side (“our children,” she called them); Trump, you, Sessions and the devil on the other. There might as well be a big wall in between the factions.

The volume of Waters’ rant deflects attention from another great injustice — only this injustice is being corrected: chronic unemployment.

While the jobless rate has fallen dramatically in Butler County since Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, it has been even more so in Waters’ 43rd District of California, which includes southern Los Angeles. Her constituency, which is 46 percent Hispanic and 23.6 percent black, has suffered chronic unemployment approaching 20 percent throughout her term. Now that district’s unemployment rate is 11.3 percent — almost half of what it was at the start of Trump’s presidency.

Like you, Mr. Kelly, Waters is running for re-election. She won’t call attention to Trump successes like the increase of jobs, especially among minority populations. All those newly employed constituents might not be so gratefully dependent now on the federal government and its entitlement programs — in fact, they might become a little resentful that government taxes their new earnings so heavily.

Nope, she’s not going touch that. Instead, the congresswoman will play the injustice card, as she did a while ago against you on the House floor when you addressed automotive credit regulation. And she’ll renew her call for the president’s impeachment.

So, the practical advice: Maxine Waters is not the enemy. Don’t let her depict herself as one.

A friend in the public relations field gives us this wry observation: “Heard it several times in the last few days and again this a.m. from Jonah Goldberg on NPR: ‘Western Pennsylvania voters’ is now the media shorthand for bigoted Trump supporters. Kind of offended, but I get it.”

Waters has her constituency: she says “our children” are the kids of illegal immigrants.

NPR now identifies your constituency — “our children” — as bigoted Trump supporters.

What do you think, Mike? Can you work that into your platform?