Islamophobes Came for Americans on the Campaign Trail

Donald Trump has made the demonization of Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, a key element of his 2020 re-election strategy. But the targeting of Ms. Omar and her fellow Democrat and Muslim member of Congress, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, started as soon as they became candidates. A new poll of Muslims who ran for office in the 2018 midterms shows how central bigotry has become to America's political life.

We published a study this week that found that, around the 2018 midterm elections, Ms. Omar and Ms. Tlaib were in the cross hairs of a tiny band of Islamophobes, long before Mr. Trump elevated them in his tweetstorms, and likely before they were even on his radar.

Read more by Lawrence Pintak, Brian J. Bowe and Jonathan Albright at Foreign Policy.