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Rally Behind Ilhan, Not Nancy.
There’s no more time for games. It’s time for the left to rise, and fight.
Let’s imagine our descendants sixty, seventy, even one hundred years in to the future.
Imagine historians at that time combing over video footage, internet data, social media feeds, and cable news conversations. Consider the times we live in now in the present, and how they will see us. I would imagine we’d be hard pressed to find a historian even today, who would deny that we are living in the midst of an incredibly pivotal moment not just within the United States, but the world at large. I don’t think it could have been made more clear than it was when our President tweeted that four leftist women of color serving in Congress should go back to the countries they came from, or when his crowd of supporters erupted into chants of “send her back!” when he called out one in particular.
Ilhan Omar is serving her constituency, and putting her body and life on the line to do it. As a leftist Somali Muslim immigrant, she is the antithesis of everything Donald Trump envisions for this country, and he is willing to weaponize his base against her in order to stress that point. Trump is using her in order to further his plutofascist agenda, even going so far as to say that she praises Al Qaeda, hates Jews, and hates America in…
