Barack Obama: “My commitment to you, the American people, is that I will focus every single day on how we can get people back to work.”

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

The effort, he said, “should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views.”

The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.

Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.