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Apparently six broken ribs and more than half a million dollars in damages weren’t enough for America’s most anti-Semitic congresswoman. Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, took a break from spewing Hamas sympathies and allegedly violating state and federal tax laws to cover up her seemingly sham marriage to retweet a joke endorsing the 2017 assault of Republican Sen. Rand Paul.

The retweet comes following days of an escalating war of words between Omar and Paul, who earlier said he’d pay for her to revisit Somalia, from which she immigrated, in order for her to better appreciate America. Omar previously admonished Paul for voting against further funding of the 9/11 First Responders Victims Fund.

As you may recall, Paul’s neighbor blindsided the senator, who was wearing noise-canceling headphones, and attacked him from behind on the lawn of his Bowling Green, Kentucky home. The neighbor, Rene A. Boucher, left Paul with five or six broken ribs, subsequent pneumonia, weeks required for medical leave, and breathing issues for the following year. Boucher, a Democrat who maintained that the attack was motivated by ordinary neighborly rage rather than political animus, was ordered to give Paul $582,834 for damages, pain, and medical expenses.

There’s no question tensions have put politicians and journalists in more danger than they’ve been in decades. Antifa terrorists in Oregon gave journalist Andy Ngo a brain hemorrhage for simply doing his job, and after five years of steadily declining threats against either the president or those in line for presidential succession, prosecutions of such threats against President Trump and his cabinet spiked by 130% in just one year. Of course, violence goes both ways. South Bend Mayor and 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg has spent an unprecedented amount on security due to homophobic threats against him. Last year, a career criminal targeted prominent Democrats from former President Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton with mail bombs.

So when Omar, who has said “violent rhetoric … [has] no place in society,” shares jokes teasing, if not openly inviting assault of her congressional colleagues on the basis of pure political animus, it raises the question, who’s threatening the peace that makes our republic even possible?

“It was nice of her to provide even more evidence that she is a person with vile, anti-American beliefs and values, who apparently also supports violence for political disagreements,” Doug Stafford, Rand Paul’s chief strategist, told the Washington Examiner.

Omar can speak for herself if she so wishes to clarify or amend her remarks. But she’s already shown us who she is. The only question that matters here is whether her colleagues and the firefighting truth-seekers in the media hold her to account.