Washington Examiner / Magazine
March 26, 2019 Issue
March 26, 2019 Print Edition
Cover Story
American Hangover
The politics of Congress is increasingly one of chaos. Democrats won the House of Representatives in 2018 on a pledge to hold President Trump accountable and promote “fairer” economic growth. Yet for the first two months of the party’s tenure in power, it has been New York freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dominating headlines with her social media-driven insta-fame and advocacy of policies like the Green New Deal, a sweeping program to redesign the entire economy to combat climate change that has won the endorsement of several Democratic presidential candidates over the objections of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California. Suffice it to say, this is not how the Democrats won over Middle America in 2018. Recently, Rep. Ilhan Omar, a freshman from Minneapolis, has drawn attention for anti-Semitic comments that House Democrats could not bring...

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