Not for the first time, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is choosing ignorance. The freshman congresswoman is discovering that her casual labeling of detention centers for border-violators as "concentration camps" denigrated the unique horror of the Holocaust, as well as libeling the law enforcement officers of ICE as comparable to Nazi death camp–operators. Because she clearly did not understand at the time of her remark, she has been invited to visit Auschwitz and see the difference.  Because she now knows that she is on thin ice and would have to retract her odious comparison, she in effect says, "Ignorance is bliss." Her Twitter rejection of an offer to see what a concentration camp really is smacks of a desperate effort to find an excuse. The last time you went on this trip it was reported that you also met w/ fringe Austrian neo-Nazi groups to talk shop. So I’m going to have to decline your invite. But thank you for...(Read Full Post)