President Trump’s racial insensitivities are nothing new, most recently shown by his tweets attacking Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib. But while the media do their usual due diligence in focusing on Trump for multiple days on end, they’ve largely ignored the open displays of radicalism by “the squad” as they’re now apparently called. Comments by Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Saturday at the Netroots Nation convention in Philadelphia went barely noticed, and were equally troubling. She said:
It’s a pretty stunning statement if you’re in the political mainstream. Unfortunately, it is not an alien concept to the far-left that populates academia, the media, and online discourse. This notion has been around since the late-19th century and was popularized in the Progressive Era, only to recede after World War II and re-emerge after the 2016 election.
