Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Lindsey Graham: 'Stop pretending authoritarianism is a thing of the past
The Hill @thehill 10m10 minutes agoOcasio-Cortez fires back at Lindsey Graham: Stop pretending authoritarianism is a thing of the past http://hill.cm/1VySmvC
Ocasio-Cortez was responding to a tweet from Graham telling her to “take a tour of the Holocaust Museum” after she compared Central American migrants to Jewish families fleeing Nazi Germany.
“This administration has jailed children and violated human rights. Perhaps we should stop pretending that authoritarianism + violence is a historical event instead of a growing force," she tweeted.
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“I recommend she take a tour of the Holocaust Museum in DC,” Graham tweeted. “Might help her better understand the differences between the Holocaust and the caravan in Tijuana.”
His comment was in response to a Sunday tweet in which the incoming lawmaker wrote: “Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn’t a crime."
"It wasn’t for Jewish families fleeing Germany," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “It wasn’t for targeted families fleeing Rwanda. It wasn’t for communities fleeing war-torn Syria. And it isn’t for those fleeing violence in Central America."
She suggested he visit the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture.
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My grandmother worked there for many years. We ate at their lunch counter once a week. 
allowing all of that to stand and fester and therefore dull down humanitarian impulses by terrifying the population. I took this photo at the Holocaust Memorial in Miami.
of her colleagues, including getting a chance to discuss with the leadership what she and they will be doing this term. A new respect. So far. Too soon to assume it's a reset, but the tone of her messages has shifted and suggests she now understands and values the enormous advantages of working for change from the center of power -- with a lot of people who share her goals.
And I love this valuable call-out warning of the dangerous rise of right-wing authoritarianism to some who may never have heard of it but have now because they're listening to her.
I am still concerned about Saikat Chakrabarti, her former campaign chair and incoming chief of staff. Unlike before, his last week or so of tweets contains no direct contradictions to what she is saying, so it may be that she's been able to rein him in somewhat. The current tweet focus is mostly on mobilizing to fight climate change (great!). However tamped down, though, an almost constant dishonest and contemptuous hostility toward her Democratic colleagues still permeates his Twitter feed. The large majority occupy the broad liberal ground between his radical leftism and the conservative-influenced centrists he dishonestly portrays them all as.
I just hope she cuts him loose before he causes her serious trouble. Fwiw, I found no new Twitter messages suggesting the men of Justice Democrats regard her position as a member of congress as a "chip" they can sacrifice to their radical crusade if needed. Guessing she may not have liked that. 
