Opinion: The crude politics of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar have established a new mood in Congress, an approach to national politics that is combative, angry and polarizing. They are following Donald Trump's lead.
We’re in a time of absorbed but subtle and not fully noticed shifts. Old-time liberals and conservatives seem to understand each other more deeply, more generously than they did in the past: In some new way they see the other’s basic political decency. On the other hand the parties they’ve been aligned with offer constant confusion and surprise.
I am not talking about ideology but something else, some kind of judgment. I look at Beto O’Rourke and see a handsome, glistening creature who is obviously eccentric and probably shallow....
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