NEW YORK POST:

Rep. Ilhan Omar says there’s little difference — in terms of motivation if not politics — between her and three other leftist freshman reps who’ve dubbed themselves “The Squad” and the far-right Tea Party movement.

“We look at the negative aspects of the Tea Party and not really at the part of them that spoke to the American people, that made them feel like there were people actively fighting for them,” she said in an interview published Friday by Politico Magazine.

“There’s a resemblance there. A lot of us are not that much different in our eagerness to want to come here and fight for our constituents, fight for the American ideals we believe in,” she said, referring to The Squad, which also includes Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.

They and other leftist freshmen elected in the Democrats’ crushing takeover of the House in the midterms have regularly vexed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and more moderate members with their willingness to push their own agenda to huge followings on social media.

More at the NY Post