"In January, Florida Rep. Randy Fine made a typically bigoted post on X about his colleague in the House of Representatives, Ilhan Omar. The post was in conversation with a specious right-wing conspiracy alleging that Omar's net worth had increased, nefariously, through a variety of unspecified means-perhaps cryptically linked back to her Somali heritage. Fine asserted that to "solve all this," Omar ought to be "denaturalized and deported.""
"The ugliness of the comment prompted Rick Wilson-former Republican strategist, he of the magnanimous Lincoln Project-to step forward. In earlier eras of discourse, the Lincoln Project attempted to coalesce an anti-Trump movement by appealing to our better angels; brandishing Sorkin-ish platitudes about the Soul of America. (There is a reason the organization name-checks the 16 th president.) But Wilson took a much different approach here. Rather than addressing the content of Fine's character, Wilson homed in on something else: The congressman is very, very fat."
In January, Florida Rep. Randy Fine posted a bigoted message on X targeting Ilhan Omar and repeating conspiratorial claims about her net worth, suggesting she be 'denaturalized and deported.' Rick Wilson, formerly of the Lincoln Project, responded by ridiculing Fine's weight, writing 'Hunting you with harpoons and whaleboats would solve all this,' and a Moby-Dick promotional image circulated with Fine photoshopped as the whale. The Lincoln Project previously sought an anti-Trump coalition by appealing to better angels. Fat-shaming politicians was long discouraged among liberals, but a visible shift toward more aggressive attacks by Democrats against opponents is occurring.
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