OPINION: How Trump flipped the script on Pelosi and The Squad
Posted on AllSides July 16th, 2019
From The Left
OPINION
President Donald Trump clearly didn't like the way House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's fight with "The Squad" was playing out for him.
After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., accused Pelosi of being "disrespectful" to young women lawmakers of color, Democrats on Capitol Hill rallied to Pelosi's corner and distanced themselves from the four congresswomen who have become the latest avatars of liberal politics in Republican attacks.
That was the opposite of the political dynamic he needs as he faces re-election — he wants the Democratic Party stuck to its progressive fringe so...