The progressive Democrat ‘squad’ and Pelosi need to find a way to get along – but Trump is the danger

Politics Explained: Democrats face a bumpy road in reconciling their young future leaders with their present but the biggest danger is the president

When the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives last year, they were quick to play up how diverse their new intake of Congresswomen and men were.

Front and centre of that were “the squad” – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar from Minnesota, Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley from Massachusetts – a group of new, staunchly progressive representatives of colour who threw the white men of the GOP into sharp relief.

Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrat leadership were quick to bask in the reflected glory of these historic new representatives and their large social media followings – but then the trouble started.