SIX DAYS after she was elected to Congress in November 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a picture of herself with three other freshmen Democrats-Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar-and tagged it simply, "Squad". The name stuck, not least with Donald Trump, who called them "a very Racist group of troublemakers who are young, inexperienced and not very smart", and urged them to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."
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