The only explanation for this that I have is that the Democrat Party has lost their minds to intersectionality. Majority Whip Jim Clyburn just made everything worse.

And when I say “worse,” I mean that pulling a Tommy Vietor and saying “dude, the Holocaust was like, decades ago” is probably the WORST thing that someone in Democrat leadership could possibly say when trying to defend Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s unapologetic anti-Semitism.

Holy shit this quote from @WhipClyburn. https://t.co/EwvOdLAILh pic.twitter.com/OPAdug39zz

— Jonathan Greenberg (@JGreenbergSez) March 7, 2019

Excuse me, which dimension of the Twilight Zone am I currently living in? If it’s the one where if Holocaust survivors are being told to “check their privilege,” then maybe we shouldn’t be discussing reparations to the descendants of slaves either? No? We’re not there yet?

I can’t even imagine how Democrat Representatives like Nita Lowey or Eliot Engel, who initially confronted Omar only to have to backtrack, are saying right now about Jim Clyburn behind closed doors.

But we don’t have to imagine what the media is saying. All together now: REPUBLICANS POUNCE!

.@NRCC pounces on Clyburn comments in The Hill:

“What the hell is wrong with House Democrats? Refusing to condemn anti-Semitism is bad enough, but Clyburn trivializing the experiences of those victimized by the Holocaust is a new low.” https://t.co/nMYA5Ct7Se

— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) March 7, 2019

That’s really where you want to go with this, media? How many months removed are we from the mass murder at the Tree of Life Synagogue, and this is where you want to go? It’s the GOP’s fault for pointing out how awful Jim Clyburn sounds?

How about a "@WhipClyburn pounces on children of Holocaust survivors to defend an anti-Semite" tweet? https://t.co/2DXvq3p2Lx

— NRCC (@NRCC) March 7, 2019

Call me crazy, but I would rather not be standing on the side that Louis Farrakhan and crew are currently praising.

And now Nancy Pelosi, who is trying to pretend that she still has control of this situation, is busy covering for Ilhan Omar by essentially “all lives matter-ing” the anti-Semitism with the anti-hate resolution that will apparently get a vote today.

Can we stop pretending that Ilhan Omar is simply so unsophisticated and stupid that she doesn’t know what she’s saying?

Perhaps we’re all losing sight of the fact that Omar is a 40-year-old woman who served formerly as a policy fellow at the University of Minnesota. She isn’t some child throwing a tantrum, or even a teenager having a difficult time adjusting. Playing her remarks off as if she doesn’t know any better — that she has much to learn and she doesn’t understand what she’s saying! — is the exact same tactic Republicans often use to excuse their champion wedging his foot all the way into his mouth with something explicitly or implicitly bigoted.”

Omar, who is not even remotely a child, has claimed that Israel has ” hypnotized the world,” obscuring world leaders from seeing its “evil.” She has also suggested that wealthy Jews dictate congressional Republicans’ support for Israel. She has repeatedly accused members of Congress and American Jews of having divided loyalties.”

The idea that she can “listen” and “learn” seems a bit – optimistic. If you’re a 40-year-old woman with a tendency to say things like these, you’ll probably someday be an 80-year-old woman saying the same things. The issue goes a bit deeper than her merely being uninformed.”

The strangest thing here isn’t that an overt anti-Semite roams the halls of Congress, or that she has a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It’s that Democratic leadership still can’t find the nerve to say, “Please stop.”

The House Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn, are now covering for the same woman who is currently being praised by Louis Farrakhan and David Duke. Even if they realized that, they have dug themselves in so deep into the intersectionality victim hierarchy that they can’t escape. Everyone should be paying attention that the Democrats have aligned themselves with some of the worst modern-day bigots in America in order to cover for Ilhan Omar, and insulted Holocaust survivors in the process. And then we wonder why kids don’t know anything about the Holocaust anymore. The adults are too busy dismissing it as “something that happened a long time ago.”

Featured image: Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC), official photo, cropped, public domain