'My aspiration has always been to try to do the best that I can do and get us closer to the America that I dreamt about, imagined, and my family talked about.' IlhanMN
. Omar also writes in the book that she has a perhaps surprising answer to the old ice-breaker question of which famous person, living or dead, she would want to meet: former U.K. prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Despite their very different politics, Omar calls Thatcher “my greatest shero” and “a self-starter in the grandest of ways.
While Omar’s pugnacious public persona has been pointed to by the right as a demonstration of the dangers of identity politics, her worldview is ultimately humanistic and grounded in organizing around common ideas more than common identities. As Omar notes, there’s a clear link between who is included in the national “We” — that is to say, what America looks like — and the failure of too many policymakers to grapple with the systemic nature of our problems. Her view on this in some ways ties back to the civil war she escaped as a child, but it really took shape in Minnesota, where a nutrition program she worked with showed her the space between material needs and what the government was providing.
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