Derec
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I wonder what his intellectual caliber must be if he deems a bulb as dim as Ilhan Omar "brilliant". After all, he is a "defund the police" nutter.I had actually asked whether there were any current federal lawmakers who they might emulate when they enter the House next year. Only Casar ventured an answer: He’d just met Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and deemed her both “brave” and “brilliant.”
That twit can't even do sportsball metaphors right. A triple threat is a single player who can do three disparate things (i.e. in American football (aka handegg aka padded rugby) run, pass and kick), not a troika of extremist congresscritters elected from safe districts who have not really shown themselves good at anything except win partisan primaries.Greg Casar on Twitter: "Triple threat, coming to DC on Jan. 3! @SummerForPA @Delia4Congress (pic link)" / Twitter
Showing Greg Casar with Summer Lee and Delia Ramirez.
Did they really deliberately "darken his face"? I see that accusation often. But how photographs come out depends on many factors - lighting, camera calibration, printer calibration.That money was often used to make their primaries a referendum on the Squad. “They wanted me, and people like me, to feel ashamed” of allies like Ocasio-Cortez and Omar “instead of proud of them,” Lee says. Then there’s the casual racism: Casar’s opponents circulated seven rounds of mailers that conspicuously darkened his face.
Yes. Everybody should be worried about Congress getting increasingly polarized, and the Squad is at one end of that dipole.The trio sees the onslaught not as an indictment of their movement, but rather as their foes’ desperation. “There’s no backlash unless you’re winning,” Casar says, “unless they’re worried about something."
This purity testing and targeting moderate democrats for termination is obviously not going to endear you to the party leadership.I agree that parts of the Democratic establishment are running scared. They lost Joe Crowley, they lost Mike Capuano, they lost Eliot Engel, they lost Lacy Clay, they lost Dan Lipinski, ... they only lost Dan Schrader this year, however.
If groups like JD or BND or SM (or whatever alphabet soup group) can campaign to get rid of moderates, why do these squaddies think that efforts of other groups (such as DCCC) to oppose them are illegitimate? Only they can fight against other Democrats, but nobody should fight them?
She is also the by far least visible member of the original Squad.This new class of progressives are more in the model of Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) — who served on Boston city council before her House run
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