Maureen Dowd and Rahm Emanuel walk into a bar

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After Maureen Down sparked an internecine war within the House Democratic caucus with her interview of Nancy Pelosi — one which culminated in the president’s recent racist meltdown — she penned a new column saying that it actually wasn’t her, but that first “[t]he A.O.C. crew threw down the gauntlet in a recent opinion piece in The Washington Post by The Intercept’s Ryan Grim.” Mmhmm.

To back up her previous point that Pelosi is in the right in her dispute with the Squad over how to combat Trump’s inhumane border policy, she dialed up Rahm Emanuel, who has arguably been the most destructive influence on immigration policy in the Democratic Party in the past 25 years. Here’s my response.