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Ocasio-Cortez's Ignorance and Gaffes Are Weakening The Left

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4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Democratic Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Should Be Criticized For Her Ignorance. She has made gaffe after gaffe and yet when the right calls her out they get accused of being obsessed. 

Who cares what clothes she wears, who cares what she eats. Republicans should talk about her gaffes and errors. If youre on the left this should alarm you as one of the most famous advocates for left wing positions and for the democrats in congress has no idea what she is talking about.

For whatever reason the democrats don't want to call her out even when she calls for "primarying" her fellow democrats

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0:00.0

The right is being accused of being obsessed with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and I think

0:05.0

some of the criticism is a bit fair, especially when you see that guy who made criticism

0:09.1

about Cortez' clothes, and both the right and the left said, what?

0:13.1

That's not real criticism.

0:14.8

But there is a reason why Cortez continues to be highlighted by the right.

0:20.0

She was paraded around by the Democrats.

0:22.2

She's called the new face of the Democratic Party, and she is a gaff queen, mistake after

0:28.0

mistake.

0:29.1

She has been fact checked by politic fact, and by the Washington Post.

0:32.7

She has been called up by mainstream journalists.

0:34.9

I think the real issue here is that Cortez can say whatever she wants, and the Democrats

0:39.7

don't call her out.

0:41.1

When she went on the daily show with Trevor Noah, she made some ridiculous claim about

0:44.6

the American economy, 200 million workers, living on less than 20 or $30,000 a year, and

0:50.0

Trevor Noah said nothing, a ridiculously false claim.

0:53.4

So why is it that conservatives keep talking about it?

0:55.4

But when you call her the face of the Democratic Party, and then parade her around the nation

0:59.4

endorsing other Democrats before she gets elected, and she keeps saying things that are just

1:03.8

not true, yes, people are going to talk about this young woman the Democrats keep propping

1:08.5

up.

1:09.5

But now, we have Cortez coming into office and actually challenging Democrats.

1:14.5

Thus, the Atlantic has written an article saying that Cortez has confounding House Democrats.

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