The more serious Democratic Party problem with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Ms. Omar is not that their great talent seems to be for political manipulation, or that they constantly set fires, portray the universe as consisting of angels and demons, and put people off with their arrogance while exciting them with their ferocity\u2014though all these things are true.
It is that in doing these dramatic things, and amplifying them through their impressive social-media skills, or compulsions, they have fully broken through and made their mark. In their fame and celebrity they altered the face and feel of the party into something that appears more radical, more hissing and accusatory, more hard-left.<\/strong>
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s success last June scared fellow Democrats across the country into thinking she is the future, that they must get aboard and get with her program, which many of the party\u2019s presidential nominees have. She has very effectively changed the\u00a0<\/strong>ideological<\/strong><\/em>shape of the Democratic Party <\/strong>with her de facto open-borders policy and other extremisms.
Mature liberals and moderates know this will come back to bite them.
She does this from a completely safe district. She can\u2019t be primaried from the left. She feels a job security no Democratic moderate can feel. Nancy Pelosi said a glass of water could be elected in her district if it were a Democrat, and it\u2019s true.
For all these reasons Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has been destructive to her party\u2019s chances in 2020. She is a one woman Committee to Re-Elect the President<\/strong>.
<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAs embarassing and toxic as Ilhan Omar is, she is a gift that will keep giving to conservatives for …<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…well, being in the Fifth CD, for as long as she wants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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