New party, who dis?
It’s clear that there’s a new Democratic party in town as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to drag the party to the left. From suggesting 70 percent tax rates to a full embrace of Democratic socialism, the new freshmen are being forced to own Ocasio-Cortez’s radical positions.
This New York Times headline from over the weekend says it all: “Ocasio-Cortez Pushes Democrats to the Left, Whether They Like It or Not.”
Ocasio-Cortez is also “dominating the Democratic conversation on Twitter,” Axios reported, “generating more interactions (retweets plus likes) than the five most prolific news organizations combined over the past month.”
As much as they may want to, Democrats aren’t able to tip-toe around Ocasio-Cortez’s radical policies. Even Harry Reid called Ocasio-Cortez’s latest proposal radical this past weekend. When you’ve lost Harry….