"Saying non-white people should go home is RACIST, even when it happens to white people."
Funny thing is, when I first heard about this whole controversy, I assumed Trump was telling them to go back to their
Democratic stronghold cities, fix them first before trying to propose national policy. It's an old Republican slam against Democratic policies to help the poor or minorities:
"you run Chicago and you can't stop 20 killings in a weekend, what makes you think you're qualified to propose gun control?"
"Your state has massive welfare programs and your poor population keeps getting poorer. Why should we promote your failed policies to the national level?"
And so on.
AOC's district covers
the Bronx, an area with declining wage income and a 29.7% poverty rate. Ilhan Omar represents a district with
the highest rate of terrorist recruitment in the USA. Rashida Tlaib's district has
a 33.5% poverty rate, the 3rd highest of all Congressional districts nationwide, and includes a chunk of the ongoing disaster that is Detroit. Only Ayanna Presley's
MA-7 district posts decent numbers, but its 18.7% poverty rate is still higher than the state's 10.5% rate.
And all of those districts have decades-long histories of unbreakable Democratic control.
I like having a Shitlord-in-Chief tweeting from the Oval Office, but Trump botched the chance to really nail these idiots on their policy failures. The Democrats are
desperate to pretend this is all just racism, because if they have to answer for their policies, they're screwed.