Analysis: Democrats can expect to find themselves brawling on ideological, generational, religious and racial lines again.
Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — The fight over Rep. Ilhan Omar is over for now, but the battle lines won't be erased anytime soon.
Its sting was soft enough that Omar voted for it and praised it in a joint statement with fellow Muslim Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Andre Carson, D-Ind. Instead, factions of Democrats spent most of the week brawling with each other over who had the right to be most offended, with many of their colleagues just praying for a quick cessation of hostilities.
"I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country," she said.
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