The escalating internecine feud between far-left freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and less-far-left House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acquired a new component this week: racial identity. In comments that instantly attained viral status, Ocasio-Cortez suggested Wednesday that the Democratic House leader was “singling out” women of color, like herself, a comment she doubled down on before attempting to downplay. Now that Ocasio-Cortez’s civil war with Pelosi has added an identity politics front, decorated war hero and Republican lawmaker Dan Crenshaw has offered a message to the embattled leader of the House Democrats.
The battle, which really has been brewing since day one when Ocasio-Cortez participated in a protest a radical group staged at Pelosi’s office, ramped up when the House Speaker took a clear shot at the tweet-happy freshman rep. and her “Squad” of radical freshmen Democrats — Ilhan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Ayanna Pressley (MA) — for pushing back against her leadership. “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world. But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got,” Pelosi told The New York Times Saturday.
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