DSA Brain Trust Confuses Two Jewish Joshes, Then Ilhan Decries Bombs She Voted For All Along

You’d think an organization that spends this much energy talking about Jewish people would eventually learn to keep them straight. But no. The DSA’s brain trust apparently mixed up two different guys named Josh, both Jewish, in whatever conspiratorial group chat produced this mess. That’s not a typo. That’s what happens when your worldview reduces actual human beings to interchangeable stand-ins for a narrative you already decided was true.

Then there’s Ilhan Omar, suddenly aghast at bombs falling somewhere, as if she wasn’t one of the votes that helped send them. This is the same move we’ve seen from her before: rage at the outcome, amnesia about the process. Either she didn't understand what she was voting for, which is its own problem for a sitting member of Congress, or she understood perfectly well and is now hoping nobody checks the record. Neither option is flattering.

What ties these two things together isn't complicated. It’s carelessness dressed up as conviction. You can't claim moral clarity on foreign policy while mixing up which Jewish person you're smearing, and you can't posture as an anti-war conscience after voting for the war. The DSA and its allies in the House keep asking to be taken seriously as a governing coalition. Stories like this are why that ask keeps falling flat. Sloppiness isn't a personality, and outrage isn't a substitute for actually knowing what you voted for.