House "squad" leftist Rep. Ilhan Omar, who was last seen pledging fealty to her native Somalia, suddenly has caught the Sorosian "democracy" bug.

She put out this tweet, piously claiming, in the Soros style of 20 years ago her concerns about "democracy" in El Salvador, which last we heard, was doing pretty well.

Election day over there is today and out in the Virginia suburbs, where many Salvadoran expats live, it looks like this:

A local:

Looks pretty democratic to us.

Instead of getting away with the democracy pieties, as the NGOs have been doing since airing such "concerns" became the way Democrats ran foreign policy, Omar got this reply from El Salvador's very popular president:

That's a smackdown Omar probably didn't expect.

The "democracy" concerns that have so upset Omar and the Sorosian left in the West are that El Salvador has solved its massive crime problem by -- get this -- putting its criminals in prison, every last one of them. 

That upsets the Soros crowd, which would prefer the model seen in blue cities of unpunished crime run rampant to keep middle-class non-criminals imprisoned in their homes. 

That 'democracy' line may rope in the left, but it didn't fool Bukele, who knew very well what she was all about.

Her hypocrisy was pretty amazing, actually. She recently went on record praising that paragon of democracy, Somalia's government, and pledging her loyalty to it, even as she supposedly represents the U.S. in Congress.

Somalia hasn't had democracy of any kind in decades, and its last free and fair election was in 1967. Instead of policing El Salvador's election, maybe she can redirect her democracy bug there.

For that reason, Somalia is a dump while El Salvador has become a star of the emerging markets, sporting rising domestic investment and World Bank-forecast 2.8% GDP growth in 2023, following an 11.2% growth spurt in 2021. It's nice over there. Crime-stat-wise, it's actually safer than Canada. The place has grown so popular its expats are coming home and the country has stopped shipping illegals. It's also put a huge "tax" on illegal border crossers headed north (thank you, El Salvador) and it's actually drawing expats from the states, happy to spend their retirement years in the beautiful country whose direction now is strictly upward.

Democracy problems? Not really. President Bukele put the bad guys in jail and now sports a 91% public approval rating. He is expected to win his re-election by a nuclear margin.

Longtime foreign correspondent Brian Winter writes:

Reuters says he has it in the bag, too.

How Omar can wave the 'democracy' card at a success story like this is amazing. Only a leftist can do this, hating freedom and all the good that comes of public order. The foremost human right, as Robert Young Pelton has noted in one of his books, is personal security. Bukele has given that and now the country is blooming. The president of El Salvador bit back at Omar's underhanded democracy claptrap and drew lots of applause on Twitter and beyond.

Image: Twitter screen shot