<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/27/1829057/-Why-they-fear-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez" class="">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/27/1829057/-Why-they-fear-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="5f26t-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="5f26t-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="5f26t-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">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.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="2nsuf-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="2nsuf-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="2nsuf-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="duof0-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="duof0-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="duof0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Ocasio-Cortez came seemingly out of nowhere and:</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="8uefr-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="8uefr-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="8uefr-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="et7un-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="et7un-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="et7un-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Defeated Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's presumable successor Joseph Crowley.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="7skg2-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="7skg2-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="7skg2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Has a magnetic personality.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="eag68-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="eag68-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="eag68-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Has a narrative that correlates with the reality of most Americans.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="6cet7-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="6cet7-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="6cet7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Won without corporate money.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="b69tm-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="b69tm-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="b69tm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Ran a real grassroots campaign.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="fe1br-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="fe1br-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="fe1br-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Ran on an unabashedly Democratic Socialist platform.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="35sib-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="35sib-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="35sib-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Built a 2 million+ Twitter follower base, which means she can direct a large portion of the national narrative.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="1ia0c-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="1ia0c-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="1ia0c-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">Uses social media to get her message out and counter attacks in real time.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="1pe59-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="1pe59-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="1pe59-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">FAIR's Alan MacLeod pointed out an inconvenient truth.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="5ka8j-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="5ka8j-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="5ka8j-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><br data-text="true" class=""></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="54mvo" data-offset-key="86phs-0-0" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, '.SFNSText-Regular', sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14.000000953674316px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div data-offset-key="86phs-0-0" class="_1mj _1mf" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="86phs-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">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 </span></div></div></div></body></html>