Silence the ‘squad’ by rebutting their terrible ideas

Published July 22, 2019 9:44pm ET



To prevent policy action by the “squad” of far-left congressional Democrats (Reps. Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley), conservatives should seek to debate them at every opportunity. Doing so, we can persuade Americans that the squad’s ideas aren’t very good and articulate how our ideas are better.

Such an approach is far superior to screaming “Send her back!” at Ilhan Omar and throwing profanity laden insults or threats at any other member of the squad. That course only risks making the squad a more sympathetic cause to people otherwise skeptical of their ideas.

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