Two Women on the Verge of a Party Takedown (Omar and AOC)

[mountaineer]

Two Women on the Verge of a Party Takedown
American political superstars Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez made political history last November. The two political neophytes trounced the establishment’s sure fire bets in long shot bids for national office. Big name talk show hosts, Madison Avenue glossies, hipster blogs, podcasts, pundits, and political gadflies are all clamoring for a piece of Omar and AOC’s indisputable, incandescent, irresistible charisma — along with entre to their social media empires. But can the power of new celebrity bend the Democratic Party? DIE WELTWOCHE pulls back the curtain to find out.
24.04.2019
By Amy Holmes

Like meteors hurtling to Earth from the vast cosmic unknown, two new politicians have crashed the Washington status quo and are threatening to vaporize the political establishment. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York are igniting heated debate over their uncompromising progressive politics.

Omar, the first Somali-American to be elected to national office, is confounding Democratic party leaders with her aggressive, and many say anti-Semitic, views bashing Israel and its American defenders.  ...

Ocasio Cortez, or “AOC” as she and her legions of fans dub her, vigorously defends Omar. She is also pushing a “Green New Deal” — a radical global warming action plan that seeks to transform American life, including ending airplane transport, fossil fuel extraction, and malodorous bovine gases all in the next ten years. Mindful that AOC’s Millennial embrace of the Democratic Socialist label jeopardizes the traditional Democratic party’s viability with centrist voters, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has dismissed AOC’s global warming “moonshot” as “the green dream or whatever they call it. Nobody knows what it is. But they’re for it, right?” ...

AOC is an undisputed master of Millennial Twitter-speak. To the delight of her online audience, she regularly “owns” detractors with ripostes like her tweet breezily dismissing former US senator and vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman who dared publicly question her political savvy. In a mere seven characters, the congresswoman kneecaps the elder statesman, snarking, “Who dis?”

Her social media followers eat up her every virtual morsel.   ...

But beneath the public adulation, party resentment is brewing. Some party members are starting to feel uncomfortably trapped in Omar and AOC’s graphic novel world. The two, fiery freshman — who Tobman describes as “absolutely convinced of their righteousness” — are threatening to fracture the national party. ...

Between Omar’s inflammatory foreign policy pronouncements and AOC’s neo-Socialist fervor, the Democratic party and its moderate members risk being dragged off of a political cliff.  ...

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[mountaineer]

I heard part of this author's appearance on Beck's show today. What she has to say about Omar probably would have destroyed the political aspirations of any Republican (to say the least).

[Fishrrman]

mountaineer wrote:
"What she has to say about Omar probably would have destroyed the political aspirations of any Republican (to say the least)."

Please elaborate for a dummy like me....?

[mountaineer]

Omar went to the polling place and helped direct Somali voters how to cast their ballots. Meanwhile, a Somali election official likewise was instructing his fellow Somalis how to vote for a Somali and against "that Jewish woman" they were trying to unseat.

[EdJames]

Omar went to the polling place and helped direct Somali voters how to cast their ballots. Meanwhile, a Somali election official likewise was instructing his fellow Somalis how to vote for a Somali and against "that Jewish woman" they were trying to unseat.

Outrageous!

[mountaineer]

Specifically (from the article I posted):

Kahn recounts an incident at a Minneapolis polling station during the 2014 local election where a Somali-American election judge was allegedly instructing voters in Somali that one voting line was for “our Somali brother” and the other for “the old Jewish lady,” meaning Kahn. The Star Tribune reported at the time that a Somali-American Kahn supporter submitted an affidavit accusing Omar — then, a city council aide — of “shouting instructions” to the election judge at the polling station. Kahn’s campaign filed a formal complaint. Omar denied the allegations.

Kahn is the longtime state rep who was defeated by these tactics.