The New Democratic House Representative has stopped throwing political fireballs at her OWN party members…
She never did cross Democratic House Speaker Pelosi and voted for her appointment as Speaker…
Ocasio-Cortez has dialled down the temperature around herself….
Campaigning has given away to governing….
Less than two weeks after being sworn in last year, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young progressive star fresh off an upset of one of the top Democratic leaders in the House, put her fellow Democrats on notice that she would soon be coming for them, too.
Appearing in a promotional video for Justice Democrats, the insurgent liberal group dedicated to unseating entrenched Democratic lawmakers that helped sweep Ms. Ocasio-Cortez to power, the Bronx firebrand urged her supporters to recruit candidates to run against her new colleagues. She was flanked by the group’s three co-founders, two of whom had just taken top jobs in her office. There were even whispers that she might try to oust Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, a rising star regarded by many Democrats as a future speaker of the House.
But after nearly nine months, with her eyes now wide open to the downsides of her revolutionary reputation and social media fame, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has tempered her brash, institution-be-damned style with something different: a careful political calculus that adheres more closely to the unwritten rules of Washington she once disdained.
“I think I have more of a context of what it takes to do this job and survive on a day-to-day basis in a culture that is inherently hostile to people like me,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview.
As a counter to this, AOC just yesterday endorsed Marie Newman, who is challenging Illinois Democrat Congressman Dan Lipinski in the upcoming March primary. Newman barely lost to Lipinksi two years ago. (Others such as Elizabeth Warren have previously endorsed Newman for this race)
Lipinksi, one of the few remaining socially conservative Democrats reacted to this by basically parroting Trump and saying that his caucus colleague AOC was an extremist and that the district does not want a fifth member of “The Squad,”
So, it’s going to be a pretty ugly primary. The DCCC is of course standing by Lipinski.
The counter to AOC IS in the linked piece…
She wisely isn’t going go completely establishment…
Smart women…
Won’t tangle with the House Democratic leadership people who will need to get things from…