Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: Trump Isn't Ready For A Girl From The Bronx

[ancianita]

As party criticisms of Ocasio-Cortez mount, it's good to know how Millennials have become engaged by this candidate.

Given that 78% of Americans working full time live paycheck to paycheck,
and that nearly half do not have four hundred dollars at the ready,
that the social mobility of moving from the bottom fifth to the top fifth is twice as likely in Canada as in the US,
resentment has allowed a demagogue on the right to build a movement on that secondary feeling.

That Ocasio-Cortez addresses these austerity problems is a clue for new Democrats running in red state primaries.

David Remnick's "Left Wing of the Possible" helps us to meet the candidate.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/23/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-historic-win-and-the-future-of-the-democratic-party

I do think we are in a crisis of late-stage capitalism, where people are working sixty, eighty hours a week and they can't feed their families. there is a lot that is economically dystopic in this country. So that's why people are open to change.

Democrats need to help more candidates like her, who, in her words, will "widen the electorate."

That electorate is likely the 80% who didn't vote for Trump. Let's hope they are more ready to vote for other new faces in politics than for the current WH occupant or his pretties.

I hope she has gotten the "Colbert bump."

[Afromania]

1. Definately not in this lifetime and probably not in the next either.

[ancianita]

2. What does that mean?

[Afromania]

3. It means he's not ready for a girl from the Bronx.

trump is cowardly and not ready for anybody that's going to confront him head on. It seems like Cortez is looking to do exactly that.

[ancianita]

5. Thanks. I simply didn't understand what you referenced.

[ADX]

4. A girl from the Bronx tops a racist from Queens, anytime...

...BX ALL DAY!!!

(from a proud Bronx native...)

[elleng]

6. 'that the social mobility of moving from the bottom fifth to the top fifth is twice as likely in Can

Canada as in the US, resentment has allowed a demagogue on the right to build a movement on that secondary feeling. . .

where people are working sixty, eighty hours a week and they can't feed their families.'

[ancianita]

7. Please proceed... ? Not sure I understand why you quoted this?

[elleng]

8. Seems like major reasons

for 'how Millennials have become engaged by this candidate.' so emphasizing them.

[ancianita]

9. Exactly. The New Yorker article fleshes out those issues in relation to Ocasio-Cortez.

[rocktivity]

10. Cardi A Plus.

rocktivity

[coeur_de_lion]

11. Those Bronx girls

are crazy tough. They grew up having to be tough on a daily basis. I used to be best friends with one of them.

If trump takes her on God help him.

[ck4829]

12. K&R