Although Trump and “the Squad” (the collective nickname for the congresswomen) have venomously denounced each other, the reality is that they both want the same thing: to make the women the public face of the Democratic party. As Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, recently told the Washington Post:“The whole theory of change for the current Democratic party is that to win this country we need to tack to the hypothetical middle. For all these reasons, progressives want the Squad to be the new face of the Democratic party. But Trump’s intervention has also given Pelosi and Squad a golden opportunity to publicly reconcile without anyone losing face. Trump isn’t the first politician to have underestimated Pelosi, but in the long run it may cost him more than whatever he gains by attacking the Squad.

Source: The Guardian July 18, 2019 13:07 UTC