Billionaire Activist: AOC Is The Centrist, Not Howard Schultz The Beat With Ari Melber MSNBC

[Celerity]

New member of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is having a huge impact on political discourse and the Democratic party, with several potential Presidential candidates reacting to her and criticizing her economic agenda, including Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who is considering running as an Independent candidate. Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur, Nick Hanauer, tells Ari Melber that Ocasio-Cortez is advocating “for economic policies that benefit the broad majority of citizens” which is in fact more “

[DeminPennswoods]

1. If, in the "red" CDs of Pennsylvania, Dems

ran candidates exactly like AOC, the GOP would hold 0 seats in the Congressional delegation.

[pecosbob]

2. I love the irony

Someone actually using real-world labels. In any other universe than this, 90% of DC is conservative. If there was an actual far left they would be calling for nationalization of critical industries and putting the one percent in re-education camps.

[ehrnst]

3. That's a lot of attention. (nt)

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. "It is time that we pay people what they are worth and not how little they are desperate enough...

...to accept."

AOC speaks for me. She does framing so well. When she puts it that way, yes she is a centrist representing the true beliefs of a majority of Americans.

[Bettie]

5. She speaks for me too

but you made me laugh with a tiny typo...AOL instead of AOC! LOL.

I needed a small laugh today.

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. LOL, now I'm laughing too

Someone somewhere should be writing a newspaper column of the best typos of the day. Spell Check has contributed a lot to that genre. I have lost count of how many hilarious mistakes I have made by absentmindedly accepting the first spelling correction it offers me for a word I got wrong, only to find out later that I inserted another word with a completely different meaning instead.

[Bettie]

7. Spell Check and autocorrect are

often hilarious...and confusing! Have a great day.