Danny Hellman

For years, the suggestion that Ilhan Omar had married her brother was treated like some kind of horrifying whacked-out right-wing racist, Islamophobic insanity. This despite repeated journalistic investigations showing evidence this was true — along with evidence that Ilhan’s father was a high ranking military aide to the mass murdering Somalian dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Why did it matter? Because this was the person lecturing Americans about our own morality at home and abroad while serving as a member of Congress and meeting with foreign leaders. Omar’s acts of radical self-invention are arguably the most American thing about her. Whats intolerable is that the entire legal, political and journalistic apparatus responsible for investigating such matters in Minnesota seems to have decided to sweep it all under the rug — and then smear and gaslight anyone who suggested the evidence was real. Now here’s the New York Times and the campaign manger for Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey telling you that yes, of course it was all real. American politics now offers citizens two types of contempt. There is the contempt of those who use state offices and titles and connections to the White House to take billions of dollars from Arab governments and Kremlin “businessmen” to fund their half-assed crypto schemes and real estate deals. We call those people Republicans. And then there is the contempt of those who install foreign scam artists as front men for their sectarian schemes while stealing your tax dollars and telling you not to believe your lying eyes, ie Democrats. One party is made up of cheap hustlers and pigs, and the other party hates you and laughs at you while doing its best to dismantle the country and hand it over to scam artists and haters from the worst places on earth. But don’t worry: Election Day is almost here!