Benjamin Weingarten - American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party

Advance Praise for American Ingrate

Benjamin Weingarten professionally and thoroughly dissects the strange case of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and demonstrates that much about the congresswoman is an enigma at best and a fraud at worst. We do not know, and authorities are apparently not interested in, her strange marriageher tax avoidance, her violations of campaign financing laws, and her apparent disgust with a country that shesought out and presently finds profitable. Weingartens case study of Omar serves as a larger indictment of the therapeutic mindset, which Omar manipulated so well on her way to notoriety and power. Weingarten suggests that if Omar had not existed, she would have had to be invented, given that she is a metaphor for a larger American pathology of progressive virtue-signaling, and, ultimately, self-loathing.

Victor Davis Hanson ,
The Hoover Institution,
Stanford University

American Ingrate is a serious, deeply researched work that makes the compelling case Rep. Ilhan Omar is the new face of the Democratic Party, and delves deeply into her background and beliefs. It compellingly sets forth the argument that she not only personifies, but leads a Progressive-Islamist alliance held together by the glue of hatred of America, of Judeo-Christian values, of Western civilization, and of Israel. Read it and weep. Or better, read it and fight back. This is a manual in that fight.

Dennis Prager, national radio talk show
host and columnist, co-founder of PragerU,
and New York Times bestselling author of
ten books, including, most recently, the
first two volumes of The Rational Bible ,
a five-volume commentary on the Torah

It has become clear that left-wing ideology and extreme identity politics have cultivated a dangerous strain of anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party that is part and parcel of its increasingly anti-Judeo Christian and anti-Western orientation. Benjamin Weingarten has done a brilliant job of illustrating this phenomenon through the story of Rep. Ilhan Omars rise to power despite her holding views about Israel, the Jewish people, and Americas role in the world, which would have been unacceptable just a few years ago. American Ingrate is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the modern Democratic Partys posture towards Israel and its reflexive anti-Americanism.

Newt Gingrich ,
former Speaker of the House

Since she first emerged as a public figure in Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar has been accorded coverage fit for an old-fashioned fan magazine like Tiger Beat. The mainstream media have turned away from any serious examination of Omars shocking personal background or her foggy Islamist Marxism as though she were just any other prominent Democrat. Benjamin Weingarten pierces the fog in his penetrating study of Omar. In my own writing, I have followed Omar closely from the moment she appeared on the scene as a conquering hero of the left in August 2016, yet I learned new things about her on virtually every page of American Ingrate. Omar is a leading indicator of the direction of the Democratic Party. This is therefore both an impressive and important book.

Scott Johnson,
Power Line

American Ingrate is a sharply critical reckoningcultural, political, and intellectualwith Ilhan Omar, one of the most divisive and destructive figures in American public life. The Democratic partys inability, or unwillingness, to censure or even criticize the Minnesota congresswoman for her hateful remarks about other Americans, American Jews, is evidence that one of the countrys two major political parties is trending in a dangerous directionnot progressivism but Middle East-style sectarianism. Benjamin Weingarten has the full story. His comprehensive research, unearthing Ms. Omars hidden past and unpacking her third-worldist ideological convictions, is an invaluable and timely contribution to the key debates shaping our American moment.

Lee Smith, investigative journalist and
author of The Plot Against the President

Ilhan Omar, the subject of Benjamin Weingartens timely and copiously researched book shares Jeremy Corbyns Communism, and his hatred of Jews and Israel and support for Islamic terrorists in the United States and terrorists worldwide. And as Weingarten demonstrates, she also hates the United States of America. While she doesnt hold a formal leadership role in the Democratic party[s]he is playing a central role in Corbynizing the Democratic Party. Weingartens book sounds a critical warning bell. Ilhan Omar is no mere symbol of diversity. She is a hardcore, radical ideologue who went into politics to advance her goal of weakening America while making the United States an unhospitable place for Jews and for everyone who doesnt share her bigoted, hatred for Americans, America, and everything it stands for.

Caroline Glick , award-winning columnist and
author of The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for
Peace in the Middle East

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Table of Contents

Omar as a Symbol ofand Contributor to
the Progressive Transformation of the Democrats

It was a point so straightforward, so obvious, that it should not have needed making. Sometimes, though, these are the points that most need making because they are the ones most apt to be missed. Sharia supremacists, and in particular, the jihadists at the point of the spear, agitate (and, in the case of the jihadists, slaughter) for a reason .

This simple truth is still obscure today because it was consciously avoided when jihadists declared war on the United States by bombing the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993. Our determination to combat the atrocities while turning our eyes from what animates them remains strongeven after 9/11, even after nearly two decades of fitful war made seemingly unwinnable and endless (to borrow President Donald Trumps description) by the price tag our government placed on success: its mulish insistence that fundamentalist Islamic cultures would quickly transform into Western democracies.

Willful Blindness. Thats what I called it at the time, and in a memoir about the oddity of being on the front lines of a national security struggleas a prosecutor of all things. The phenomenon that our enemies were at war with usprojecting force against our homeland, on an attack scale never accomplished by our mortal Nazi and Soviet enemiesyet we judged indictments and subpoenas as an adequate response.

The determination to treat a security challenge as a law enforcement problem signaled a failure of will. Even with the post-9/11 course correction, which finally placed military, intelligence, and diplomatic assets in the forefront, with law enforcement in a support role, this failure seemed to become more, not less, apparent. It instructed our adversaries that, at its core, the American superpower was mired in self-doubt. Its ruling elite, in particular, were more curious about what we must have done to provoke the ire of Muslim militants than convinced about the need to prevail over an ancient yet newly energized totalitarianism.