Indeed

If you're a Republic, you can say whatever the fuck you want.

the opposition any more reason than necessary. You don't always have to talk. Her political career may be over

and knowing when the wind is at your back

She’ll either figure it out, or she’ll be wiped out next year.

That's the scary part of this. There will be no consequences for these statements.

Or just a bit naive?

I actually don't disagree with her on the substance of what she is saying, but I think one needs to be aware of the history of Antisemitism and what those means. I think she's mainly guilty of being oblivious to that.

That's a correctable problem. If she IS Antisemitic, though (which I have not seen evidence of), then that's a fundamental problem.

I actually find it more racist/bigoted to keep dismissing this as "inexperience" or naivete. We wouldn't make those excuses for any other 40 year old with nearly a decades worth of political experience.

But we're treating her like a child because, I think, she's a Somali female.

This is a tricky area, IMO. It's difficult to criticize a lobbying organization without criticizing financial influence in our political system. Of course, that stomps right into age-old Antisemitic tropes.

But it's also true that the pro-Israel lobby exerts a lot of influence in the USA. And I do think the USA has not always acted in our own interests for the sake of Israel. And Israel IS a foreign state. Those things all collide together. But there has to a be a place where the state of Israel, and the pro-Israel lobby can be criticized without invoking Antisemitism.

And yeah, I do think the depth of cultural Antisemitism in west might be lost on a first generation Somali immigrant

Black Americans are the most deeply religious people in America. This generation of activist Millenials are the least religious people in America. Immigrants and black Americans and Hispanics already here are going to be in competition for the same jobs. Muslims are going to be increasingly important. Aligning their policy wants with those of gays, women, and Jews is going to be really interesting.

I do think Democrats have the potential in the next two decades to become as dominant as they were post FDR.

But that dominance was built on the back of uniting essentially two parties with disparate ideas into one - Southern Dems and Northern Dems.

You can talk about diversity being our strength all you want until people start questioning your true loyalties.

makeup of her district might shield her a bit from consequences of this kind of behavior. But then I realized I'm deeply liberal, with a liberal's realistic acceptance of a whole range of imperfections, including mild bigotry, as normal to human beings -- and also a liberal's acceptance that we all have a right to exist anyway and a moral duty to make it work. Including especially to control those among us who would attack and genuinely hurt others if allowed.

So, I like what I like about Omar and dislike what I don't, spoke out against that, and hope that she chooses in future to hide her problem with groups she doesn't like. Right now her Muslim identity is giving her a shield of another sort, as if antisemitism from a Muslim (surely more of a victim than Jews these days?? ), is somehow defensible. But she'll lose that cover very quickly if she uses "a poor choice of words" about some other group.

In any case, in 2020 Omar's new constituents will decide if she will continue representing them. And as a "deeply liberal" deeply committed to democracy, I respectfully leave that choice to them and her future mostly in her own hands.