Democrats suffered their share of disappointments in the 2024 election when President-elect Donald Trump narrowly defeated Vice President Kamala Harris and Republicans flipped the U.S. Senate while holding their small majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Yet the Democratic Party’s progressive wing was happy to see members of The Squad reelected, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota).
Tlaib and Omar are both Muslims, and Randy Fine — a far-right MAGA Republican who is running in a special election in Florida’s 6th U.S. Congressional District — singled them out in a threatening November 26 post on X, formerly Twitter.
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Fine posted, “The ‘Hebrew Hammer’ is coming. @RashidaTlaib and @IlhanMN might consider leaving before I get there. #BombsAway.”
The New Republic’s Robert McCoy notes that attacking Muslims is nothing new for Fine.
McCoy explains, “Tlaib and Omar are two of just three Muslim members of Congress, and the only two Muslim women. Fine has a history of using demeaning rhetoric against Muslims and Palestinians and trafficking in Islamophobic tropes. In the past, he has said that ‘we have a Muslim problem in America’ and that ‘while many Muslims are not terrorists, they are the radicals, not the mainstream.'”
The New Republic reporter adds, “In August 2021, when Fine was a representative in Florida’s state House, the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a complaint against him with the House Public Integrity and Ethics Committee, alleging that Fine ‘violated his duty as an elected official’ by ‘encouraging his constituents to run over people at Palestinian advocacy protests,’ ‘call(ing) for the annihilation of the Palestinian people,’ and direct-messaging a Floridian to ‘blow yourself up,’ among other instances of ‘egregious conduct.'”
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Fine is running for the U.S. House seat being vacated by Michael Waltz, who Trump has nominated for national security adviser.
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Read The New Republic’s full article at this link.
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