Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) published an op-ed in The New York Times Thursday in which she repeatedly calls President Donald Trump a “racist” and levels a number of accusations against his administration.
“Throughout history, demagogues have used state power to target minority communities and political enemies, often culminating in state violence, Today, we face that threat in our own country, where the president of the United States is using the influence of our highest office to mount racist attacks on communities across the land,” Omar begins her article.
She goes on to claim that the chants of “send her back” directed at her during a recent Trump rally in North Carolina will become a “defining moment in American history.”
“I was reminded of times when such fearmongering was allowed to flourish. I also couldn’t help but remember the horrors of civil war in Somalia that my family and I escaped, the America we expected to find and the one we actually experienced,” she writes. “It reminds us of the grave stakes of the coming presidential election: that this fight is not merely about policy ideas; it is a fight for the soul of our nation.”
Omar laments the fact that the America her family “arrived in was different from the one my grandfather had hoped to find.”
“The land of opportunity he imagined was in fact full of challenges,” she continues. “But the beauty of this country is not that our democracy is perfect. It’s that embedded in our Constitution and democratic institutions are the tools to make it better.”
Throughout the article, Omar uses the terms “racist” or “racism” at least six times to describe President Trump and his policies.
“The only way to push back is to be unequivocal about our values. It is not enough to condemn Mr. Trump’s racism. We must affirmatively confront racist policies—whether the caging of immigrant children or the banning of Muslim immigrants or the allowing of segregation in public housing,” she writes at one point.
She accuses the Trump administration of seeking to “restrict people from exercising their voting rights,” undermining the “basic checks and balances of our Constitution by not respecting subpoenas from Congress,” and using “overtly racist rhetoric to strike fear and division in communities of color and religious minorities across the country.”
“The proudest moments in our history—from the Emancipation Proclamation to the civil rights movement to the struggle against fascism—have come when we fight to protect and expand basic democratic rights,” Omar concludes her article. “Today, democracy is under attack once again. It’s time to respond with the kind of conviction that has made America great before.”
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Anthony Gockowski is managing editor of Battleground State News, The Ohio Star, and The Minnesota Sun. Follow Anthony on Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Ilhan Omar” by Lori Shaull. CC BY-SA 2.0. Background Photo “New York Times Building” by Haxorjoe. CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Along the same lines haughty preventing the president from blocking idiots in twitter, public officials, especially US representatives, should not be allowed to purge social media accounts to hide their background and/or opinions. Omar has purged social media accounts to hide her actual history, family, whatever fraud she committed involving this bizarre marriage nonsense, who knows what else, It is goof the program allowing Somalis to scam the US by bringing in “family” was stopped because of 85% fraud, but let’s follow up and prosecute, sending the cheaters back. She might be one, in any case, it should be mandatory to do genetic tests if immigrants, especially those claiming to be relatives,. Along with preventing fraud lie Omar’s or is it Emil’s ?Family clearly engaged in, it would be wise to prevent child trafficking.
It is interesting, she and people like her never give any details of how their opponents are “racist” they just repeat the dumb leftist mantra.