[Occupymendocino] -Why they fear AlexandriaOcasio-Cortez

[Richard Karch]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/27/1829057/-Why-they-fear-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez


Why would Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old freshman member of Congress and Democratic Socialist, so rattle both the Republican right and the Democratic center? The short answer is very simple.

Ocasio-Cortez came seemingly out of nowhere and:

Defeated Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's presumable successor Joseph Crowley.
Has a magnetic personality.
Has a narrative that correlates with the reality of most Americans.
Won without corporate money.
Ran a real grassroots campaign.
Ran on an unabashedly Democratic Socialist platform.
Built a 2 million+ Twitter follower base, which means she can direct a large portion of the national narrative.
Uses social media to get her message out and counter attacks in real time.
FAIR's Alan MacLeod pointed out an inconvenient truth.

It is impressive how much Ocasio-Cortez has upset the right-wing in such a short time. But when it comes to actual policy issues and not just Twitter spats, it appears the centrist 
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