Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the new Republican bogeyman (or bogeywoman) of choice | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
To warm up the crowd before President Donald Trump took the stage for a campaign rally in Michigan on Thursday night, his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., laid into the proposed"Green New Deal" as typical of the pie-in-the-sky, price-is-no-concern vision Democrats have for the future of the country.
"AOC Sucks! AOC Sucks!" chanted the crowd on cue.AOC, in case you have been hiding under a pile of coats for the past year or so, is Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. And the crowd's reaction on Thursday confirms something that's become increasingly clear over these past few months: AOC is the new Republican bogeyman of choice. .
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! What do I mean? Well, remember when you were a kid and your parents would scare you into staying in your bed by telling you that if you got up again the bogeyman would get you? A bogeyman is a thing that goes bump in the night, the goblin underneath your bed, the Headless Horseman to your Ichabod Crane taking a walk on a lonely dirt road.In politics, a bogeyman is used to scare people too.
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