or a simple betrayal. It is a public acknowledgment that politics often demands decisions inside a system that has already failed someone.
Her stance forces a reckoning far beyond one election or one candidate. If “believe women” is not a guarantee of justice, what is it? A starting point, not a finish line. Omar is gambling that preventing what she sees as a greater danger justifies living with a smaller, unresolved wound. The unease that lingers is the real story: a democracy asking people to vote with both conviction and regret, and to call that choice a victory.
