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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Friday 26th of April 2024

Activism Protest galvanizes public sentiment, and when public sentiment is galvanized to a certain extent, then that turns into public pressure, and then when public pressure is applied to a certain extent, then we get policy change. That is how protest works.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez © 2024 Kwiple.com
Democrats Democrats can be too big a tent. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez © 2020 Kwiple.com
Progressives We meet a machine with a movement. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez © 2022 Kwiple.com
Race I can't name a single issue with roots in race that doesn't have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn't have racial implications. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot [T]he Green New Deal is already branded in the public's mind. Just as Ms Ocasio-Cortez is known by her initials – AOC – her bill is already known by its shorthand, GND. Few politicians, or bills, make that distinction. Think of John F Kennedy (JFK) or Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). The fact that a 29-year-old former bar- tender has gone from zero to ubiquitous abbreviation in a few months tells us something about America's appetite for change. She is now the most influential figure in US politics after Mr Trump. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez portrayed by Edward Luce, Financial Times, February 15, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She's not good at being full of shit. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez portrayed by Corbin Trent, co-founder of Justice Democrats and an early supporter © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Get your act together sweetheart, because I'm coming for your seat. Get the fuck outta here! Tina Forte, Republican challennger for AOC's seat representing NY's 14th congressional district © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Wealth inequality Every billionaire is a policy failure. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's slogan, written by Dan Riffle, her policy adviser © 2020 Kwiple.com