Trump's name calling episode involving Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, and the small community of Somali-Americans is, of course, a sign of his ignorance, and possibly his mental failure. His statements display total ignorance, about Representative Omar and about the community of Somali-Americans in Minnesote, and in the United States. Trump, of course, lies about everything and then asserts that his lies are true in order to justify his unjustifiable actions. He is a person who exemplifies nothing at all when it comes to personal character and morality, or any kind of values, especially American values.
Ilhan Omar has, on four occasions, won the trust of a significant majority of the voters in her Congressional district, and Trump's recent comments, labelling her, along with other Somali-Americans "garbage," in his inartucluate, stunted vocabulary of hate, are not anywhere close to an accurate representation of who she is. In Minnesota's fifth congressional district, she is twice as popular as Trump has been among voters.
And that's saying something.
The fifth congressional district is made up of almost all of the city of Minneapolis, one of the more progressive, educated and, I don't mind using this term, sophisticated cities in the country. It also includes large swaths of the suburbs to the west of the city, an area where the population is economically healthy for the most part, above average in educational level and quite diverse racially and ethnically. It actually has lower crime rates than comparable large cities and suburbs elsewhere, though it is not completely without its problems and issues. But then, neither is any other large city. Still, the community atmosphere there is a credit to the state's and city's political leadership, who happen to be majority Democrat.
Representative Omar is part of that political community that has been relatively successful in its representation of the people. Obviously. The voters have spoken. And the fact of the matter is that while the small community of Somali-Americans lives within her district, the number of them who are eligible to vote and who might be most likely to support her are not anywhere near enough to dominate the district. She has, with hard work, education and getting out and doing the job of a member of the House of Representatives, earned the trust of the voters. She is a patriot, in every sense of the word.
Muslims who get involved in politics are often accused of having the ulterior motive to "establish Sharia law in the United States." That's a fear tactic more than it is a reality. But Omar, who is most definitely a liberal Democrat, is a true representative of the people. And there hasn't been a hint at pushing for Sharia law in anything she has done as a member of Congress. She's opposed to the Gaza War, and her policy on Israel is to make them accountable before getting aid from the US, rather than a desire to see them destroyed. But her views on Israel are similar to mine, and I'm not Muslim at all.
Clearly, approval of her politics and her representation of the district goes well beyond the fact that she is a Muslim, and a naturalized American citizen, eligible to be a member of Congress and trusted by the voters to represent them on issues they consider important. And that's what seems to get under Trump's skin, prompting comments that are insulting, offensive, false, and unpatriotic.
But this is what the man has done for decades. He's an immoral, unprincipled bigot, lacking self-respect, and frankly, just basic courtesy and manners that should be major expectations of the conduct of the President of the United States. His caustic comments, tweets, or whatever you call the drivel that pours out of his social media posts, mark him as unworthy of the Presidency, disrespectful to the country and lacking the moral and intellectual restraint to curb his disgusting, childish, anti-American, anti-Christian behavior. Most of what he says lacks factual support, which is a nice way of saying he's a liar.
In fact, I find myself in agreement with most of her politics, and none of what can be identified as his politics, if there's even a coherent way to understand a man who just tweets out garbage and governs by the seat of his pants, issuing meaningless and ineffective executive orders for the courts to simply fold up and let blow away. No wonder he's upset with her and is subjecting her to the same kind of drivel that he does to all his enemies, especially toward women who demonstrate they are much smarter than he is. And she is not only smarter, but she's more of a patriot than he is.
Author's Note: And there's more reaction to Trump's unwise comments posted on social media regarding Rob and Michelle Reiner's death. The man demonstrates an inability to live and comment in the real world, and that should frighten us. He's a walking billboard that screams, "I'm not smart enough to be President, I'm not socially acceptable enough to be President and I can't imagine why anyone would be so stupid as to vote for me for President."
He's a convicted felon, a rapist, a seditious insurrectionist, and a hater of the United States and everything it stands for. And these kinds of statements that he makes is all the proof we need.
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