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.@SpeakerPelosi Can’t Disown Her Political Progeny amgreatness.com/2019/07/18/pel…

One is an ungrateful refugee from a war-torn African nation who consistently demeans the country that saved her and her family.

Another is a foul-mouthed historical illiterate who called the president a “motherf—er” and vowed to impeach him the very night she was sworn in as a new congresswoman.

Yet another is a camera-hungry drama queen who injects gender, race, and nationality into every political debate because she can’t win on the merits of her argument.

And one represents a congressional seat once held by John F. Kennedy and, on the night of her primary victory, called the president a “racist, misogynistic, truly empathy-bankrupt man.”

Reps @IlhanMN, @RashidaTalib, @AOC , and @AyannaPressley—the so-called squad of freshman Democratic congresswomen now in Donald Trump’s Twitter crosshairs—have little in the way of professional accomplishments or hard-earned credentials. They range in age from 29 to 44.

Their shared ideology is rooted in racial score-settling: As the squad tells it, white men are villains and captors, and white supremacists lurk in every corner of America.

The plight of illegal immigrants is more important than the plight of working-class citizens in the Midwest. And the United States is a menace to the world.

Earlier this week, Omar mocked the notion of “America the Great” and confessed she is “ashamed of . . . continuing to live in [America’s] hypocrisy.”

While their political tactics involve in-your-face protest, insults and intimidation, as “persons of color,” the squad is not to be challenged or questioned; anyone who dares to criticize them immediately is branded a racist, a sexist, or both.

While they act tough, in reality, it is just that—an act. They are melodramatic attention-seekers who can pivot from raging to crying within seconds. It’s like the Minority Mean Girls Go to Washington.

But it isn’t just the president or Republicans or the Jews who are the targets of this unhinged hit squad: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) now is under fire for chiding the squad’s delusions of grandeur and imaginary legislative prowess.

Ocasio-Cortez suggested Pelosi’s public criticism of the defiant newcomers was based on race.

Some pundits on the Left and the Right have extended their sympathies to Pelosi.

Even President Trump defended Pelosi by insisting the long-time Democratic leader is not a “racist.”

But the speaker is not deserving of pity—this is the Democratic Party that Nancy Pelosi created.

The squad was weaned on Pelosi’s mother’s milk of identity politics, bad faith, and fear-mongering.

Now, her political offspring make up the face of a party defined by race and gender with a hearty strain of anti-Americanism, animated by name-calling and threats. Diversity, not merit, rules the day. Capitalism is evil, socialism is just.

Global warming, not terrorism, is the existential threat to humanity. We are citizens of the world, not to one nation.

Bullying is a substitute for persuasion. Critics are silenced by smears, not by facts.

Imaginary systemic injustices excuse any bad behavior; indignation supersedes hard work. Seniority is a nice word for white patriarchy. Respect flows only one way.

The squad’s political hubris was a generation in the making, during which time Pelosi was a Democratic Party leader

Aside from her relatively tepid criticism of late, Pelosi, like a bad parent, has mostly accommodated the squad’s tantrums and antics since Election Day.

The speaker continues to defend the squad’s outlandish rhetoric to describe the situation at the border, including comparisons between migrant detention centers and Nazi concentration camps.

When Omar unleashed a vile attack against conservative Christians from the House floor, ridiculing their pro-life views, claiming the “Religious Right” doesn’t care about ”...the children that are detained ...dying in camps across our borders,” Pelosi was silent.

But Pelosi’s biggest mistake was watering down a House resolution originally intended to condemn Omar for her anti-Semitic remarks.

After pushback from Omar’s allies, the final resolution instead covered any “hateful expressions of intolerance” including negative comments about “African-Americans, Native Americans, and other people of color, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, [and] immigrants.”

The capitulation even angered some House Democrats—but an emboldened Omar on Tuesday introduced a resolution to express support for the Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

Trump is shrewdly leveraging the squad for his own purposes, agitating his base and forcing Dems to rally around a small caucus of kooks that—while largely offensive to the working-class voters the Dem candidate will need to win over in 2020—has been empowered by their leader.

This is the party Pelosi created. Now she must live with it because she cannot undo it. The re-election of Donald Trump next year, in addition to her losing the speakership, might be the price she will pay.