Ilhan Omar IN UTTER TERROR AS THOUSANDS Of her Voters Just got Sent BACK |

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📰 The Traitor Label: Ilhan Omar In Utter Terror As The Crisis of Divided Loyalty Hits Her Base

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is facing a political and existential crisis after President Donald Trump’s administration targeted her constituents with a severe immigration enforcement action. The situation, which has sparked calls for her deportation, highlights a critical pattern that political historian Victor Davis Hanson identifies as the classic failure of republics: divided loyalty.

Omar, who built her career on representing her Somali-American community, is now trapped between the interests of her ethnic base and her oath to the United States. As federal enforcement increases, the pattern of prioritizing ethnic identity over civic identity is coming to a head, leaving Omar politically exposed and her voters in “utter terror.”

I. The Pattern of Divided Loyalty: Athens to Rome

Victor Davis Hanson frames the controversy surrounding Omar within a historical context that spans millennia, arguing that a political community cannot sustainably function when its representatives serve two masters.

The Historical Rule: Hanson’s seminar question—”What happens when someone represents two different places at the same time?”—has always been answered the same way: “You can’t serve two masters. Eventually, you have to choose.”

The Athenian Precedent (Alcibiades): Hanson cites the example of Alcibiades, a brilliant Athenian general who defected to Sparta and later Persia, constantly switching loyalty based on personal benefit. The result was that he was trusted by no one and ended up assassinated in exile. The lesson: “When someone has divided loyalty, they don’t really have loyalty to anyone except themselves.”

The Roman Precedent (Alaric): Rome recruited generals from Germanic tribes like Alaric, who technically served the empire but retained their tribal identity. When their interests diverged, Alaric sacked Rome itself. Rome learned that “you can’t force them to identify with the civilization that gave them those things. Identity goes deeper than paperwork.”

II. The Trap of Identity Politics in Minnesota

Omar, who came to America as a refugee, represents Minnesota’s Fifth District, home to a large Somali population. She chose to position herself as the explicit “protector of one specific ethnic group against the government you’re part of.”

The Political Poison: This choice, Hanson argues, creates a “specific kind of political poison” where everyone outside that community starts asking a critical question: “Does she represent Minnesota or does she represent Somalia?”

The Zero-Sum Choice: Omar is now locked into a political trap. If she continues positioning herself as the defender of constituents here illegally, she remains “toxic to everyone else.” If she moderates, she alienates the community that put her in office. “Either way, she loses.”

The Political Liability: Her actions make her a liability to other Democrats running statewide, forcing them to “distance themselves from her quietly at first, then more openly because political survival requires reading which way the wind is blowing.”

III. The Federal Enforcement and Its Consequences

The Trump administration’s strategy involves aggressively enforcing immigration law, a policy designed to test the loyalty of local leaders like Omar.

The Implementation: Immigration enforcement is increasing in Minnesota, steadily affecting constituents whose status is questionable. “Not thousands at once… but steadily, consistently.”

Omar’s response has been to coach her constituents on how to handle immigration enforcement encounters, which critics view not as legal advice but as an act of prioritizing an ethnic group over the broader society.

The Deportation Calls: This crisis has fueled conservative lawmakers, like Texas congressmen, to actively circulate petitions calling for Omar’s deportation, a move aimed at forcing the political consequence of divided loyalty.

IV. The Breakdown of Civic Identity

Hanson warns that the shift away from a common civic identity is not unique to Minnesota but is a pattern playing out across America, where political decisions are increasingly based on ethnic or religious identity rather than academic merit or shared civic values.

The Collapse of the Republic: “That’s how republics die. Not from external conquest, from internal distrust.” America, which used to be a “city” where people shared a common conception of the good life, is now becoming a fragile “alliance” of competing ethnic factions.

The Lesson of Carthage: The fall of Carthage serves as a powerful cautionary tale. They relied on mercenary armies who had “no loyalty to Carthage.” When the money ran out, they turned against the empire. Rome, which had citizen-soldiers who saw themselves as Romans first, survived. The difference was identity.

V. Prediction: Isolation and Accountability

Based on the recognizable historical pattern, Hanson predicts a steady decline in Omar’s influence:

Isolation: Omar will become “increasingly isolated within a few years,” becoming politically toxic even to other Democrats who need to win statewide races.

Loss of Trust: “When people stop trusting that you represent them, they stop voting for you. Simple as that.”

The Hard Lesson: Omar is about to learn the hard way that “America can’t function long-term with politicians whose primary loyalty is to ethnic or religious communities rather than to America. Something’s going to break.“

The solution, according to this analysis, is for America to re-embrace the understanding that assimilation is necessary, and that civic identity must supersede ethnic identity for the political community to function. Omar’s current crisis is the predictable result of ignoring this fundamental historical requirement.

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