Pochahantas

For a few years now, Trump has been deriding Elizabeth Warren as "Pochahantas" because - in Trump's fevered imagination - Warren used a mythical Native American heritage to get into grad school and become a professor. The Boston Globe proved a while ago that Warren did not benefit from whatever claims of Native American ancestry she may or may not have made.  Needless to say, facts never get in Trump's way.

Today, Warren released a DNA test that proves she does have some Native American heritage somewhere back in her timeline.  What was interesting was not the predictable derision from conservatives but the narrow hairsplitting from liberals and leftists.  Typical was a few tweets noting that having Native ancestry does not necessarily make you part of a tribe, and where does she get off blahblahblah. 

Warren, in fact, did note that she was not a tribal member.  She said all the reasonably right things to say.  But it didn't matter.  A certain subset of holier than thou leftists felt the need to "Well, actually..." a perfectly reasonable video from Warren. 

You can make an argument that you shouldn't dignify Trump's attacks with a response.  But a common lament is that Congressional liberals don't fight back. Warren fought back and was criticized for how she did it.

This is why we can't have nice things.