News Brief: GOP and Corporate Dems Very Concerned™ About Ocasio-Cortez
Added 2018-07-06 19:22:55 +0000 UTCConservatives and rightwing democrats respond to Ocasio-Cortez's surprise win by acting VERY CONCERNED for a left they've spent decades trying to bury and have never cared about.
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Comparing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Trump Is Absurd
Matt Taibbi | June 28, 2018 | Rolling Stone
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez too “far left” for America? Absolutely not
Paul Rosenberg | July 4, 2018 | Salon
Explaining Away Ocasio-Cortez’s Political Earthquake
Marko Brancetic | July 5, 2018 | Jacobin
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References
Richard Cohen | July 2, 2018 | The Washington Post
Daniella Greenbaum | June 27, 2018 | Business Insider
Is Ben Jealous What Progressives Want?
Adam Serwer | June 25, 2018 | The Atlantic
Ocasio-Cortez Proved That ‘Identity Politics’ Is an Asset for Berniecrats
Eric Levitz | June 27, 2018 | New York Magazine
David Edwards | June 27, 2018 | RawStory
Tuesday’s primaries were a good night for the populist left.
Sarah Jones | June 28, 2018 | The New Republic
Where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Parts Ways With Bernie Sanders
Reihan Salam | June 28, 2018 | The Atlantic [+ teaser tweet]
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Comments
With the prevalence that people bring up "what about Venezuela?" in response to discussions of socialism, I think it'd be cool to do an episode on that bullshit response.
David Greve
2018-07-12 13:52:08 +0000 UTC
