Posted on 01/14/2019 9:22:57 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clearly has superpowers. When was the last time a freshman member of Congress was able to not just vault policy issues up the agenda with a remark in an interview or a visit to a protest, but whip much of Washington into such a frenzy of consternation and jealousy?
We don't yet know how Ocasio-Cortez (already known by her initials AOC) will use these powers. But her extraordinary celebrity tells us a good deal about what politics, and the Democratic Party in particular, look like in 2019.
Ocasio-Cortez's rise owes a great deal to her own gifts, but it also had something to do with timing. She was one of two Democrats to defeat a House incumbent in a 2018 primary, and since the national media had largely overlooked the race until her victory and were shocked that she took down a member of the Democratic leadership, she suddenly became a perfect symbol of the election that was underway. A young, charismatic, unapologetically progressive Latina booting out a doughy-looking old-school white guy pol with shoe leather and deft use of social media? You couldn't ask for a better story as Democrats were headed for a historic win driven by women voters.
But as Ocasio-Cortez sailed through the general election an into Washington, she has shown some unusual skills, ones that seem to be driving Republicans absolutely nuts. Despite the occasional misstep, she seems earnest and even joyful (a rare quality), and has become a social media star. She has 2.4 million followers on Twitter and another 1.8 million on Instagram, where she mixes politics, policy, and humor in an appealing combination that few politicians can match.
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I have yet to meet a Republican that she’s driving nuts, however she ranks up there with Chrissy Teigen on the “How do they get so much media attention for doing nothing?” scale.
Not just complicity, but the MSM is the ones actually making her a household name and building her up. Without them, she’s just another idiot, factually hindered leftist,
And whatever you do, do not dismiss the fake poor spawn of Westchester as the fool her intellect would have you believe, for she is the puppet of old money.
She won in her district because her constituency is even dumber than she is — largely female, immigrant (many illegal), and underclass.
Unfortunately there are plenty more like them all over the country. For this reason AOC is dangerous, as she will be the Pied Piper playing her tune.
Yeah.. it's true.. I saw sparks shoot out of her A$$! /s
Correct. She is an artificial creature of Big Media and the Swamp.
She has 2.4 million followers on Twitter
Half are Republicans getting the funny stuff straight from the horses mouth.
Blessed are the meme makers for they shall make us laugh.
What planet is this guy living on?! Republicans are thrilled with her newly-found celebrity.
LOL - she’s just the media favorite. And shooting her down is like shooting fish in a barrel for conservatives.
I say more power to her. She’s going to do more damage to what’s left of the D party than she’s going to do to the cucks in the GOP.
Of the two parties, the GOP is far more evil. They talk a good game, then allow the rape to continue, then they go out drinking with the rapists.
Wrong! People use "AOC" simply because it isn't worth the oxygen it takes to say her name.
Spot On. That’s a fact.
In the past, AOC would be thought cute and summarily dismissed even by Democrats.
Had O-C pulled this cutesy display off when HRC was running, this Middle School behavior, she would have found a horse’s head in her Winnie the Pooh bed covers.
She’s Nasty Pelosi’s “sparkling brown child”. The future face of America until the tax dollars are all gone.
oh please...give us names! The last I heard it wasn’t a republican partying on a private island with a pedophile (Bill Clinton) and it wasn’t republicans involved with a child porn ring. Rapists? Provide names please. I’ll certainly grant you that the republicans are losers- weak, power-hungry and inept- but they are a far cry from what the left is.
If she was Beto without “a rack”, she’d still be tending bar and passing out chicken wings. This farticle is nonsense.
The Democrat party is turning into a freak show.
Her power is being able to eat corn on the cob through
a picket fence.
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