We need to realize that Omar, Pressley, Tlaib, and AOC mark the possibility of a fundamental change that the white political elites fear more than they fear elite supremacists, no matter how minuscule that possibility is. How they seamlessly combine the intersectional positions of gender, race and class to question the political imaginational boundaries set by the white ruling class, including the role of capital, is absolutely threatening .. Historically the black/brown communities are conditioned not to dream political dreams outside of the absolute middle of political discourse (this is one of the reasons Biden has so strong support in those communities). 'If you dream and act outside of the political boundaries given, there will be repercussions that are worse than what came before', is the conditioning. The radical dream of 'change' for many black and brown communities is one where things are simply not worse than what they were before. That is what is meant when we talk about the need for 'pragmatism' - not to dream of real change for anyone but the white middle class. This is also why these four women of color are constantly attacked by the dem leadership - they need to be conditioned and set as an example of what happens to strong women of color who dare to question what feminism means outside of the liberal confines, who hint at the root causes of oppression of the system, who question some of our cemented social relations. For those of us who study history, we recognize the violence in the language of those in power who constantly come back to how insignificant, worthless, useless, naive and weak in this game of patriarchal politics these women of color are - how they need to learn to play within the white pragmatic confines that they so gracefully have been given access to. They are allowed to exist because if they can be broken from their dreams of change, their intersectionality is a useful tool for promising change but changing nothing, for maintaining the consensus that transformative change is not possible for minorities.
The centrist men in this forum are equally obsessed with 'these women', seemingly they need to remind themselves and their surroundings constantly how insignificant 'these women' are, and how they absolutely *do not* threaten the foundations of their privilege.