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  Until the next news cycle
context: There is now exactly one person of color on the committee. >
  
  Meaning what? >
  
  Representative Democracy seems to consistently lack representation. >
  
  I don't think you understand what a representative form of government is if your foundation is built on your attributes of identity. >
  
  I don’t think you understand the word representation >
  
  Republican incompetence on display, as usual. Streisanding themselves. >
  
  Not at all. Ilhan Omar is a nobody member of the House. One of 435. The bigger the platform you give her, the more she represents what a Democrat is. Good luck winning the rust belt with Ilhan Omar being one of the top five or six people that come to mind when a person hears "Democrat" >
  
  We really concern trolling about this shit in 2023? She’s been front and center as a Democrat for the past half decade.  The rust belt isn’t going to swing between D and R because of Ilhan Omar. >
  
  Front and center? Of the tiny percentage of people who know who the squad are, most could only name AOC. I think you're really overestimating how much the average voter follows politics. >
  
  That's the truth of it. A lot of people treat politics like religion. Just sort of passed down to them by their parents, with only a vague understanding of what any of it means >
  
  Until the next news cycle >
  
  If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. >
  
  Racist person gets removed from power, happens to be a POC
  "[Reddit's] out of it for a little while, everyone gets delusions of grandeur" >
  
  Holy shit what did she actually say/do? I just read 3 separate fucking articles on this and not a single one explains what exactly she said... Including the posted one. It's enraging lol. >
  
  She on n off says things to the tune of "yes Palestine deserves to exist and Israel is trying to wipe them off the face of the earth" aka antisemetic (if youre conservative and looking for a hypocritical reason to hate her, which is what's happening) >
  
  Pretty weird seeing as Israel's ham rights abuses are well known and documented... >
  
  Based on this comment section, R/conservative is leaking >
  
  They really dislike her, it’s amazing >
  
  This is what people said about the nutters who were deplatformed. That the act of being deplatformed gave them greater notoriety or reach. Spoiler: It did not. >
  
  Yeah, annoys me when people just shift talking points based on whether they are in power or deprived power. >
  
  She was one of the most famous Congresspeople in the country. What exactly is a bigger platform? >
  
  We could do without the fringe people on both sides. Was hoping mtg or boebert would also fall, but it looks like they’re getting elevated sadly.
  Before the people come for me saying she’s not fringe, miss me with that bs. >
  
  Who needs leadership positions when you can have a BiGgEr PlAtfOrM >
  
  Maybe for this week's new cycle, but long-term her prospects aren't looking good especially given that she almost lost her most recent re-election bid prior to all this. >
  
  Ilhan Omar has easily won each of her general elections and most of her primaries by very wide margins. The only relatively close race she's had was her 2022 Dem primary against Don Samuels if that's what you mean, and the national panic about crime and her support of police defunding had a lot to do with that.
  The 2022 crime panic (that the media has conveniently forgotten about now that elections are over) was largely played-up by republicans, conservative dems and corporate dems that wanted to kneecap progressives in primaries (and then subsequently lose to conservatives in the generals in many cases). If it's a problem in 2024 it will largely be from a lack of learning. Police popularity is on unsteady ground, as they keep unjustifiably killing people, and more people are noticing it. It's hard to say what the big issue is going to be in 2024, but I wouldn't be surprised if the republicans don't try another crime panic since that was mostly what carried them in this last election in the competitive districts where they did succeed. It's up to progressives to find an effective counter-narrative, and the other dems to not be idiots and try to ride on the republicans' narrative. >
  
  
  given that she almost lost her most recent re-election bid prior to all this.
  The only relatively close race she's had was her 2022 Dem primary against Don Samuels if that's what you mean
  
  Literally exactly what they said >
  
  Good ol Streisand effect. >
  
  I hadn’t heard her name in like 3 years, now she is front page news. >
  
  She will be telling the world how corrupt the GQP are >
  
  This is pure cope. >
  
  I think this comment could apply to either side as written, it is remarkably vague as a bid to look cool with I guess slang lol >
  
  Most of the time I Hers about her before was when the dems were debating whether or not to censure her >
  
  Yeah, this is the same thing that happened to MTG, take away the job part and you free her up to politick. >
  
  It's not like it's been a secret but it's still a shock to see "We're racist and we love it" spraypainted in 20ft high letters. >
  
  Stop crying >
  
  No one is crying, unless you are projecting? >
  
  In the short term, but people have short memories.  They'll get over this in less than a week. >
  
  There is now exactly one person of color on the committee. >
  
  Meaning what? >
  
  Representative Democracy seems to consistently lack representation. >
  
  I don't think you understand what a representative form of government is if your foundation is built on your attributes of identity. >
  
  I don’t think you understand the word representation >
  
  Republican incompetence on display, as usual. Streisanding themselves. >
  
  Not at all. Ilhan Omar is a nobody member of the House. One of 435. The bigger the platform you give her, the more she represents what a Democrat is. Good luck winning the rust belt with Ilhan Omar being one of the top five or six people that come to mind when a person hears "Democrat" >
  
  We really concern trolling about this shit in 2023? She’s been front and center as a Democrat for the past half decade.  The rust belt isn’t going to swing between D and R because of Ilhan Omar. >
  
  Front and center? Of the tiny percentage of people who know who the squad are, most could only name AOC. I think you're really overestimating how much the average voter follows politics. >
  
  That's the truth of it. A lot of people treat politics like religion. Just sort of passed down to them by their parents, with only a vague understanding of what any of it means