What was supposed to be an ordinary town hall meeting in Minneapolis unfolded into a moment that captured the raw strain running through American politics. Folding chairs, local questions, a familiar routine of civic engagement—until it wasn’t. In the middle of the event, U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar became the target of a startling act that forced the room, and later the country, to confront how close political hostility now sits to physical harm.
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