Punching a stick into a hornets’ nest, 73-year-old President Donald Trump told Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanha Pressley (D-Mass.) to “go back” to their countries of origin to fix their abysmal problems. Accused of racism and xenophobia, Trump validated the Democrat narrative, telling at least three American-born House members to “go back,” when they were all born in the U.S.A. Only Omar was born in Somalia, immigrating to the U.S. in 1982 at 10-years-of-age, eventually becoming a U.S. citizen at age 17. Trump’s comments stepped into the middle of controversy with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who politely reminded the progressive first-term Congresswomen that they were only “four votes,” trying to shape the Democrat agenda. All four want to start impeachment proceedings against Trump.
Pelosi opposes impeachment without an airtight case, especially on the issue of obstruction of justice. All four Congrewomen believe Trump committed high-crimes-and-misdemeanors based on the March 22 release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report. Atty. Gen. William Barr, in close consultation with former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein, determined that Trump did not meet the legal threshold for obstruction of justice. Yet the so-called “Quad-Squad” wants Trump impeached no matter what. Trump’s Sunday tweet tells the first-term Congresswoman to “go back,” delivered maximum controversy, fueling the Democrat narrative that Trump, and his administration, is a racist. Democrats have been mocking his campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” to “Make America White Again,” fueling more liberal outrage against Trump.
Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar and Pressley have been House Democrats’ loudest voice calling for impeachment. All four have gotten into a dust-up with Pelosi over their aggressive approach toward influencing the Democrat House agenda. Pelosi tried to remind the four they were only “four votes,” letting them know that they weren’t as important as they think. Yet Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), running his second presidential campaign, urged Pelosi to stop picking on Ocasio-Cortez and other first-term liberal Congresswoman, asking for Party loyalty. “Originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world,” Trump tweeted, prompting the spirited response from each of the four congresswomen. Trump accused the Quad Squad of telling the U.S. government how to run itself.
Trump said the Quad Squad was “viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government, is to be run,” Trump tweeted, prompting strong reactions from all four House reps. “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken an crime infested place from which they came. The come back and show us how it is done,” Trump tweeted. Trump knows that Rep. A
Ayahana Pressely (D-Mass.) doesn’t come from any foreign country, despite being an African American. As far as Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and Omar, they maintain ties to the Puerto Rican, Palestinian and Somali communities, constituents they intend to back from their districts. “I am fighting corruption in OUR country. I do it every day when I hold your administration accountable as a U.S. Congresswoman,” Tlaib tweeted, disputing that she’s attacking the country.
Pressley fired back at Trump accusing him of racism. “THIS is what racism looks lie. WE are what democracy looks like,” Pressley wrote in response to Trump’s tweets. Pressley thinks Trump’s rebuke of her colleagues is racism but doesn’t talk about black-on-black violence in cities like Chicago. “You’re are stoking white nationalism bc you are angry that people like use are serving in Congress and fighting again your hate-filled agenda,” Omar tweeted. When Trump uses Twitter, Democrats call it a tweet-storm but not when they use the platform to attack the president. “Members of Congress, the only country we swear an oath to is the United States,” Omar tweeted, whose anti-Semitic comments toward the American-Israeli Public Affairs Council [AIPAC] prompted a public rebuke from Pelosi. Democrats had a field day using Trump’s tweets today to advance the “Trump-is-a-racist” narrative.
Trump tweets about the “Quad-Squad” speak volumes about their calls for impeachment, not, as the four say, Trump’s racism. Trump doesn’t push a white nationalist agenda, he wants to enforce U.S. border laws to prevent hordes of illegal aliens from crossing the U.S. border. Democrats conflate racism with enforcing existing immigration laws that don’t permit open borders, seeking to enforce border to the greatest extent possible. If there are horrific detention centers on the U.S.-Mexico border, it’s not Trump’s policy to warehouse illegal aliens in intolerable conditions. When you ask the Quad-Squad how they’d do things differently, they talk only about Trump-the-racist, not practical solutions. Trump recognizes that Pelosi juggles her agenda against the unrealistic demands of progressive neophytes like the Quad-Squad, looking to impose their person-of-color agenda on the Congress.
