Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did a thing, which means the right, left, and center will collaborate for one common cause that brings them all together: Bitching about it.
Ocasio-Cortez is featured on the cover of Vanity Fair’s December issue, paired with an interview in which the Bronx representative shares her sudden rise from Manhattan bartender turned controversial congresswoman who proudly calls herself a democratic socialist. While the 31-year-old struggles to make time for yoga and ruminates over whether she should freeze her eggs—and if she can even afford it—she appears far more concerned about the upcoming 2020 presidential election. Ocasio-Cortez made it plain that regardless of the winner, Americans are “still in trouble.”
From Vanity Fair:
Under a President Biden, “if his life doesn’t feel different,” [Ocasio-Cortez] points to a cab driver whizzing by our table, “if their life doesn’t feel different,” she gestures to people walking by the beauty shop and Bengali Halal Grocery, “if these people’s lives don’t actually feel different”—now she is giving a stump speech over her omelet—“we’re done. You know how many Trumps there are in waiting?”
She is tired of incremental change, of “bullshit little 10 percent tax cuts,” she says. “I think, honestly, a lot of my dissent within the Democratic party comes from my lived experience. It’s not just that we can be better, it’s that we have to be better. We’re not good enough right now.”
It’s a fair assessment, as were her observations of the Affordable Care Act’s shortcomings (“it failed me and it failed everyone that I worked with in a restaurant”) and how her working-class background makes her a better politician than her millionaire colleagues on the Hill (“I’ve actually worked for a living”). But why focus on that when we could, instead, fret over her wardrobe?