Fannish on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[firecat]

"Why Is It Still Controversial to Call Trump a Racist?" by Ryan Bort in Rolling Stone

But for all of her talk about tax rates, universal healthcare and a Green New Deal to combat climate change, Ocasio-Cortez has mostly abstained from taking on the president directly. When Cooper asked her why, she explained that she treats Trump as more of a “symptom of a problem.” Part of this problem, she went on, is racism in America.

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[silveradept]

She is. If you haven't listened to her Maddow interview, she hits one out of the park about "border security" and what people are doing in fear, and Rachael wisely gets out of the way and lets her go and demonstrate what the real consequences of Republican ideas about immigration are.

[firecat]

Hope is a nice thing to get re-acquainted with.