Ilhan Omar, the newest Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has had a contentious first month in Washington, stumbling through multiple anti-Semitism controversies. But it was the first demonstration of the Minnesota congresswoman’s official duties on the Foreign Affairs Committee, in a hearing on Venezuela, that might be more disturbing. It certainly indicates some important lessons about the real priorities of American “democratic socialists.”
At a Feb. 13 hearing, Omar harangued Elliott Abrams, the administration’s new special envoy on Venezuela, fumbling over his name and smearing him as complicit in a 40-year-old massacre by El Salvadoran troops — something one of her staffers must have been storing away in the blame-America-first vault for a long time.
