The Squad
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called them a “bunch of communists.” Donald Trump, Jr. called them the “HAMAS wing of Congress.” The Left claims that President Trump told the group “to go back to where they came from” (he didn’t). Most people know them as “The Squad.” Whatever you think of them, there is no doubt the freshmen congressmembers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) have gained huge fame/notoriety for themselves and their causes in a short space of time.
But who are “The Squad”? Where did they come from? What ideas drive and bind them? What do they aim to achieve?
The name “The Squad” was coined by Ocasio-Cortez and derives from East Coast “hip-hop” culture. It reportedly describes “a self-chosen group of people that you want to identify with.”
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