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An Open Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
On the subject of the Justice Democrats.
Speaker Pelosi,
This letter is in regards to the ongoing “feud” between you, and the young leftists who’ve recently joined your ranks in Congress. With all due respect I would just like to make some points that your comments reveal you may be missing, and discuss some of the hypocrisy in said comments as well.
Firstly, the underlying premise to your criticisms of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Presley seem to all revolve around the same theme: unity for the sake of unity, and your frustration with the notion that these individuals won’t simply fall in line. Unfortunately, this ignores the idea that there are deep ideological differences between their policy platforms and their political approaches as opposed to yours. For instance, when it comes to the funding of the border wall, the notion of allowing the Trump administration to have billions of dollars worth of funding, and demanding absolutely no oversight when you and Chuck Schumer had the leverage to was a battle they absolutely felt they had to pick, and I would argue that they had justifiable reasons for picking that fight. This is an issue that they take very personally, as all of us should, and to mock and minimize their protests the way you did in the New York Times…
