Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Path Forward for the Left
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the most prominent progressives in Washington. Her political ascent began with her shocking 2018 defeat of a longtime incumbent in a New York district that includes parts of Queens and the Bronx. She is a strong advocate of the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. With her party’s razor-thin majorities now in peril, many of her priorities seem out of reach. Can the agenda she was elected to advance survive?
Ocasio-Cortez reflects on her time in Washington with David Remnick, painting a portrait of a dysfunctional Congress. “Honestly, it is a shit show,” she says. “It’s scandalizing, every single day. What is surprising to me is how it never stops being scandalizing.”
This conversation is part of The New Yorker’s first digital-only issue, a special collection of New Yorker Interviews.
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| 1:16.2 | Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They will discuss what she has learned about the |
| 1:21.9 | dysfunction of Congress during her time in the House. |
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