Opinion: The Ilhan Omar flap reveals Democrats’ great burden
Rep. Ilhan Omar and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi . By Molly Roberts Molly Roberts Editorial writer covering technology and society Email Bio Follow Editorial Writer March 8 at 5:27 PM No one is quite as mad as they were before, but no one is happy, either. That is the unsatisfying conclusion of a rumpus that rocked the Democratic Party this week over a freshman congresswoman’s remarks that many saw as anti-Semitic. But this agreement to agree can’t last forever.
So the Democratic Party did what the Democratic Party often does: nothing gussied up as something. An “anti-hate” resolution sailed through the House, basically saying that lots of bad things are bad.
The party’s strategy has long been to build a bigger and bigger tent. Some think the expansion should happen along economic lines: Woo the working class with pledges to lift up the poorest by expanding access to health care and guaranteeing higher wages. Others think it should happen along social lines, or the lines of identity politics: Republicans took years to condemn Rep.
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