Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), painfully progressive in an American context, is quite the ethno-nationalist when it comes to her native Somalia. In Washington, D.C., she advertises her discomfort with the United States, complaining about “the history of indigenous people, of enslavement, of police brutality.” When former President Donald Trump refused to recognize Nicolas Maduro’s blatantly rigged election in Venezuela, she called it a “U.S.-backed coup.”

But when it comes to Somalia, she is cheerfully irredentist, telling her Somali-origin constituents in their mother tongue that she wanted to bring all Somalis together in a single state.