[Maceman]

I can accept that AOC’s problem is not lack of intelligence.

Her actual problem is ignorance. Ignorance about economics, ignorance about the Constitution, ignorance about International Relations, and ignorance about garbage disposals.

[suekas]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oB9JWd0ifPw

[COUNTrecount]

[Alberta's Child]

I wish these otherwise-solid conservative authors would get their facts straight — especially when they’re writing a column about SOMEONE ELSE’S IGNORANCE.

AOC does NOT have a degree in economics.

[antidemoncrat]

“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a stupid woman”

Au contraire Pierre!

[ifinnegan]

“...she has no understanding of what a metaphors other forms of figures of speech actually are.”

Wut?

[neverevergiveup]

Her problem is exactly what President Reagan was referring to when he remarked: “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”

She is shut off from real life and truth by her dogma.

[Steely Tom]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a stupid woman...

Ahh, yes she is.

[MrEdd]

Fake news.
She really is as stupid as she sounds when she opens her mouth.

[econjack]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a stupid woman...

The writer goes on to say:

...what so often gets her into trouble and gives her an image of stupidity is her magnificent, uncorrupted level of abject ignorance

Summary: she IS stupid and, for an econ major, if I were Boston University, I would ask for my diploma back. She's an economic idiot.

[jacknhoo]

“Cortez is what happens when universities convince simple-minded fools that they’re intellectuals by giving them good grades for carrying the Marxist water:”

https://twitter.com/Elijah_Is_John/status/1225771052497805347?s=20

[GreenHornet]

After Joe Biden said he received a gut punch in Iowa, AOC demanded that whoever did it be prosecuted.

[COBOL2Java]

[NobleFree]

She is a brilliant propagandist, for example, one of the most effective our country has seen in recent decades.

I call BS - I'd love to see an example of this alleged "brilliant propaganda," having heard nothing from her but shopworn leftist bromides (and that's when she's at her peak).

she understands her core audience and how utterly malleable it is. [...] is certainly a clever manipulator.

None of that requires more than minimal intelligence - sociopathy is the key ingredient.

Despite having somehow obtained a degree in economics from an accredited university

Meaningless - as a woman and a person of color, she was never going to be given a poor grade nor denied a degree at a modern progressive university.

her magnificent, uncorrupted level of abject ignorance.

With that I agree.

[COBOL2Java]

Yes, friends and neighbors, AOC really, truly believes that, when someone advocates that folks “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” they literally mean that folks need to bend over, grab their bootstraps and try to pull themselves up off the floor.

Metaphor Comprehension in Schizophrenic Patients

[Bonemaker]

She’s dumb.

[IronJack]

When she was accused of laboring under an illusion, she responded that her boss was an Italian.

[READINABLUESTATE]

The first time I heard “pull yourself up by your boot straps” I actually gave it a try. I also figured out it was impossible, but I was five years old.

[Alas Babylon!]

– Don’t ever say “bottoms up!” to her in a bar, unless you want things to get real.

Ah, but now you will see her REAL worth.

[setter]

AOC is dangerous, very much a future threat and anyone who discounts her and her followers is a fool.