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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's new favorite pastime appears to be trolling conservative critics
Source: Washington Post
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s new favorite pastime appears to be trolling conservative critics
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
December 12 at 3:03 PM
For Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, being the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and a Latina who happens to have the word “socialist” in her party identification means enduring a ceaseless spotlight and a constant stream of criticism from conservatives who tell the world to dismiss her views and opinions.
A consistent line of attack has been that Ocasio-Cortez, 29, is young and inexperienced. There have also been suggestions that her humble upbringing is a carefully crafted narrative meant to endear her to naive members of the electorate.
Some of the congresswoman-elect’s responses to the vitriol have been forceful — as when John Cardillo, a host of Newsmax’s “America Talks Live,” told his followers that Ocasio-Cortez lived in a too-nice house in a “very nice area” before going to Brown University.
“A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling,” he said.
“Your attempt to strip me of my family, my story, my home, and my identity is exemplary of how scared you are of the power of all four of those things,” Ocasio-Cortez shot back on Twitter.
He was not the last conservative to receive a social media gut punch from Ocasio-Cortez, as she has shown herself to be particularly deft at weaponizing Twitter.
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By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
December 12 at 3:03 PM
For Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, being the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and a Latina who happens to have the word “socialist” in her party identification means enduring a ceaseless spotlight and a constant stream of criticism from conservatives who tell the world to dismiss her views and opinions.
A consistent line of attack has been that Ocasio-Cortez, 29, is young and inexperienced. There have also been suggestions that her humble upbringing is a carefully crafted narrative meant to endear her to naive members of the electorate.
Some of the congresswoman-elect’s responses to the vitriol have been forceful — as when John Cardillo, a host of Newsmax’s “America Talks Live,” told his followers that Ocasio-Cortez lived in a too-nice house in a “very nice area” before going to Brown University.
“A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling,” he said.
“Your attempt to strip me of my family, my story, my home, and my identity is exemplary of how scared you are of the power of all four of those things,” Ocasio-Cortez shot back on Twitter.
He was not the last conservative to receive a social media gut punch from Ocasio-Cortez, as she has shown herself to be particularly deft at weaponizing Twitter.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-new-favorite-pastime-appears-be-trolling-conservative-critics/
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