THE Republican Party in the US House of Representatives, led by its feckless, unprincipled speaker, Kevin McCarthy, and held hostage by its extreme right-wing members, just did something characteristically hypocritical and utterly inconsistent. The party, whose members rail against "woke" politics and its use of anti-racist political correctness, has just voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee using precisely the core of being woke. They accused Omar of being anti-Semitic for criticizing Israel. They dwelt on the political incorrectness of having her in the committee despite the fact that Omar holds credentials that are nothing...
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