The whispers have already begun.  Representative Ilhan Omar, with only two months in Congress, already is a problem for the Democrats, a potent symbol of a party unwilling to specifically rebuke the most prominent American Jew-hater since Father Coughlin, "the radio priest," reached tens of millions of Depression-era listeners with his anti-Semitic diatribes. Already, a growing stream of articles is tantalizing the national Democrats with intimations that a primary challenge next year could knock her out of her seat.  The first I have found comes from Eric Ostermeier: To secure her seat last year, Omar outlasted five opponents in the August 2018 DFL primary with a plurality of the vote (48.2 percent), including former state House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, state Senator Patricia Torres Ray, and state Senator Bobby Joe Champion (who suspended his campaign prior to the election). With Democratic leadership largely standing by her...(Read Full Post)