“I think that this president has set a racist tone,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said in an interview with Vanity Fair this week. The proud socialist is hardly the first to say this of President Trump. But her remarks are laughably incongruous, coming just days after she fought to defend, embolden, and normalize anti-Semitism.

Last week, House Democratic leaders prepared an unequivocal condemnation of ugly slurs against American Jews by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. They were prepared to put it on the House floor and vote on it. That is, they were ready to do so until Ocasio-Cortez and others told them not to. Then they obediently caved.