On the morning of July 18, 2019, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) delivered an impassioned speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate in defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). The previous night, at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, President Donald Trump had sent thousands of his supporters into a fascist frenzy when he called on Omar to “leave” America, reupping a call he’d made earlier that week for the congresswoman to “go back” where she came from. The white nationalist subtext of Trump’s speech was clear: Omar, one of the president’s most outspoken opponents, a Black and Muslim woman who became a naturalized U.S. citizen after her family fled war-torn Somalia, wasn’t really American.