Some in the news media were charmed by comments Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., made in an interview last week, wherein she said that former President Barack Obama was a disappointment to progressives and that her Democrat colleagues in the House should more aggressively push liberal policies like “Medicare for all” and the “Green New Deal.”

Though she sounded like the thoughtful politician that make journalists fall in love, her remarks were naive and superficial. Even if you wanted to credit her for some critical reflection on her own party’s last president, you can’t, because everything else she says reveals her to be superficially partisan.