It’s never a good look when a sitting member of Congress is under federal investigation. It’s even worse if it happens around election time. And if the politician in the hot seat happens to be the U.S. House’s most stridently leftist, unapologetically anti-Israel and notoriously antisemitic lightning rod — Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar — it stands to splash back on her party peers.
So, what are her fellow House Democrats to do?
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The smart money says they should put some distance between her and themselves.
Or, they could express outrage, rush to her rescue and denounce her accusers. Of course, to make that work, they’d have to be able to actually defend their colleague’s honor.
As it turned out, about 175 Democrats in the House opted for Plan B this week — firing off a letter of outrage to the Trump administration. But they only wound up shooting blanks.
The upshot wasn’t to claim the moral high ground or anywhere near it.…
