3 Members Of The Squad Have Deeply Uncertain Political Futures, One May Be A Senator Soon. . .

. . . in the "world's greatest deliberative body".

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(L-R) Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) leave after a press conference, to address remarks made by US President Donald Trump earlier in the day, on Capitol Hill July 15, 2019 in Washington, DC. – President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on four progressive Democratic congresswomen, saying if they’re not happy in the United States “they can leave.” (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

"In the span of time it would normally take a new member of Congress to figure out where their floor’s bathroom is, four freshmen House members [have] become the hottest political commodities in a generation.

"Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley — the Squad. From the covers of magazines to unprecedented solo town halls on cable television typically reserved for presidential candidates, the junior Jacobins of the Democratic caucus occupy the daily news cycle at a level that rivals one tweeter-in-chief Donald Trump.

"But how long can this last?

"The mythologizing of the Squad’s ascent as the ushering in of a new era in American politics doesn’t hold up to scrutiny when examined closely. Two of them, Tlaib and Omar were running for open seats, and the two that challenged incumbents, AOC and Pressley were running against fossilized, white politicians in majority-minority districts that hadn’t had a real election in almost a decade." . . .