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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't want condescending folks telling her how to run an election. |
The New York lawmaker in waiting is a troll on social media. She responded to the outgoing lawmaker's remarks calling her a "new shiny thing."
Not sure why fmr Sen. McCaskill keeps going on TV to call me a “thing” and “shiny object,” but it’s pretty disappointing.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 29, 2018
McCaskill promised she’d “100% back Trump up” on his anti-immigrant rhetoric & lost. In MO, almost all progressive ballot issues won. https://t.co/53qKvnr8KG
In fact, I actually went to Missouri after my primary. I met w Ferguson activists + progressive organizers.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 29, 2018
A conservative even came to embed at one of our rallies there. You can tell she was inspired + struggled w/ Fox News bc our message resonated:pic.twitter.com/P0ywHxhC4V
I’m also not sure why McCaskill is covering for the GOP by saying they “secretly think Trump is nuts”.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 29, 2018
Nobody cares. Trump is melting down our institutions and inciting division between people. At any time GOP could have checked him and choose not to.
They’re accomplices.
But she hits back and I love it. I enjoy her responding to critics. She said it best, don't fuck with the Bronx. She ain't fooling around.
She also engages in progressive activism to thwart attacks from the right.
The outgoing McCaskill gave an interview to CNN this week wherein she said Republican lawmakers privately admit Donald J. Trump is "nuts," but she also made news in questioning why Ocasio-Cortez is "the thing" and "a bright and shiny new object" for Democrats.
McCaskill criticized Ocasio-Cortez's embrace of left-wing policy proposals, saying she wasn't sure "what she's done yet to generate that kind of enthusiasm," and warned the Democratic Party against pursuing an agenda considered too liberal in certain parts of the country.
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"And so she's now talked about a lot," McCaskill added. "I'm not sure what she's done yet to generate that kind of enthusiasm, but I wish her well. I hope she hangs the moon. But I hope she also realizes that the parts of the country that are rejecting the Democratic Party, like a whole lot of white working class voters, need to hear about how their work is going to be respected, and the dignity of their jobs, and how we can really stick to issues that we can actually accomplish something on."
McCaskill concluded, "The rhetoric is cheap. Getting results is a lot harder."
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Ocasio-Cortez is rapidly mastering the art of the spin. A tweet that edits a comment down to “call me a “thing” and “shiny object” is cheap. Sen. McCaskill was conveying her sense of the freshman Congresswoman’s win as the new phenomenon in U.S politics- “the new thing.”
But this is a continuation of “the girl from the Bronx” stretching the truth to fit her purposes. She did not grow up in “The Bronx” - as we ex-40th Precinct residents experienced it. She spent her first five years in a planned community in Parkchester, moved to Yorktown Heights in Westchester, then off to Boston. No suffering through P.S. 65 or St. Luke’s Parochial for this little girl. Or getting groped as a teen on the packed No. 2, 4 or 5 Trains.
We’ve gotten used to politicians claiming they dodged sniper fire in Bosnia, “served in Vietnam”, “never had sex” with anyone they shouldn’t have, or was hiking the Appalachian Trail. Ocasio-Cortez has great potential for joining their ranks.
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