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The Overhyped Feud Between Nancy Pelosi and AOC

There’s not as much disagreement between the speaker and the left flank of her caucus as their spat suggests.
Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

“With all due respect, the press likes to make a story that is more about Democrats divided than the fact that Mitch McConnell doesn’t care about the children,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Maureen Dowd in a recent interview.

With all due respect, that’s not quite right. The newly reignited feud between the speaker and “the Squad,” as a quartet of young, female, liberal representatives are known, shows that Pelosi’s analysis is both true and misleading.

Start with where she goes wrong. The proximate cause for

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