by Sandy » Mon Mar 18, 2019 12:25 pm
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is a Democrat on the left side of her party. So she attracts the attention of conservative Republicans who want to point to her as an example of what the Democrats are up to. It's been pretty clear that the electoral fortunes of the GOP have waned considerably since 2016, an election they won based mostly on election rules and not votes. So they are dragging out their "shore up the base" rhetoric, mainly the "How in the world can you support a party that kills babies?" and all that goes along with that, and they dig up the politicians among the Democrats whose views contrast the most with some of their own. Keep in mind that in a District where Democrats hold a 29% advantage in voter registration, Ocasio-Cortez won her seat by 63% of the vote over her Republican opponent. Her presence among the Democrats is only a demonstration of the diversity of their party, not of some monolithic perspective on economics. I don't agree with all her views, but there are a couple of things about her I like, including her position on universal health care and that her social media presence is as large as that of Trump and she frustrates the daylights out of him by refuting and countering his idiotic tweets. At any rate, her views on the left are not anywhere as scary or extreme as any one of a dozen GOP reps you could find who are card carrying, flag waving members of the Ku Klux Klan.