Trump’s attack on Ilhan Omar is less about Somalia and more about American politics
When President Donald Trump turned his sights again on Representative Ilhan Omar this week, the target was nominally a foreign one: Somalia, the East African nation where Omar was born. But beneath the rhetorical blast — a catalogue of Somalia’s decades-long misery — lay a familiar political script in Washington: personal denigration of a dissenting lawmaker, a reminder that birthplace can be weaponized in domestic debates, and a signal…