Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is not Donald Trump.
But in some important ways that are a little bit terrifying and a little bit exciting she
is very much like Donald Trump.
Let me explain.
Back in late November of 2016 I found myself sitting around a table with a bunch of traditional
elite Republican types.
They were generally top 10 percenters who vote based on tax cuts.
Now none of these people liked Donald Trump of course.
They were what we like to call Anti-anti-Trump.
Appropriately disgusted by Trump, but so lost in their traditional fear of Democrats and
hatred of Hillary Clinton that they were happy to see him win.
Back in 2016 there was a lot of smugness around that table and some excitement about what
a fully Republican controlled government could do for rich folks.
I thought they were nuts.
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Trump is disgusting of course, but what I was more worried about was what he represented.
Trump's power, and the way he came to power was very very new.
Obama had shades of it, but at the end of the day he was still a mostly traditional
politician.
Trump and his path to power were revolutionary and those rich folks I was having dinner with
should have been terrified.
Not of Trump, but of the people that come after Trump.
Trump has broken something that won't be easy to fix.
Politics is supposed to be boring.
Elections and some of the issues can be exciting of course, depending on the decade, but politics
have usually been fairly predictable.
Standard political drone types work their way through the system according to a vague
hierarchy and old fashioned pretensions of public service.
Every new candidate pitches themselves as new and dynamic even though they are very
much products of the system.
Obama was the most recent example of this, but we see it every election.
This orderly system was cozy and it ensured that the folks who end up running it don't
change much that's important.
Trump is something completely different.
Media has always been an important part of the system.
Newspapers and TV could drive what people talked about to some degree, but when it came
to picking and choosing our leaders, up until 2016 it was the political parties that mattered.
Trump was not picked by his party.
Folks like to blame Facebook and Twitter for Trump but I don't think that's entirely fair.
New media played a role, but the middle aged media, the cable news channels, were probably
more to blame, and it's actually a representative of at death's door media NBC that did the
most to create this nightmare.
Without the completely fictional character of a competent, intelligent Donald Trump created
on NBC's the apprentice, I really don't think we would be here.
But nonetheless, here is where we are.
The Republican party is irretrievably broken, and the Democratic party isn't in much better
shape.
Those smug Republicans who thought they had at least elected a businessman lost a ton
of money on the stock market last year, and worse is yet to come.
All those norms, and structures that used to defend the system, and the top ten percent,
are in tatters, and after the abject failure of our first pop culture president from the
right, the country is now likely to get its first pop culture president from the left.
That's the thing I wanted to tell those Republicans at that dinner back in 2016.
By tearing off all the guard rails for a right wing President, they were leaving themselves
defenseless against a left wing president.
Despite my strong dislike for Donald Trump, US Foreign Policy since the Cold War, and
the US criminal justice system I still consider myself a conservative.
I was not looking forward to the left wing Trump.
Now strangely I am a lot less worried, because of the career of Alexandria Ocasio-cortez.
In some ways the Ocasio-Cortez phenomenon is very similar to the whole Trump thing.
She came to power by knocking one of the most powerful democrats out of one of the safest
Democratic seats in Congress.
She is also playing the media like a fiddle, though unlike Trump she actually is a product
of New media like Instagram.
She is now almost certainly the best known member of Congress, and maybe even the best
known member of US government at any level other than Donald Trump.
At this point Ocasio-Cortez really is the Democratic response to Trump I was worried
about.
She is powerful, and she is using that power to advance a strongly left wing agenda.
So why am I, a conservative, not that worried about, or even a bit reassured by Ocasio-Cortez?.
It's not just that she is a pretty woman that occasionally throws out Watchmen quotes, though
wow.
It's also where she is exerting her power, and the way she is going about it.
Weirdly she has the potential to be one of the biggest defenders of the original interpretation
of the Constitution we have seen on decades.
The old way of doing things had a long term effect.
Over the course of decades, the Legislative Branch, Congress, got weaker and weaker, and
the executive branch, the one the President supposedly leads got more and more powerful.
According to the Constitution, Congress is supposed to be the branch that decides what
we do.
That hasn't been true for at least half a century.
With each passing year, TV made the President more powerful, and suicidal actions by the
Congress, under people like Newt Gingrich made Congress weaker and Dumber.
A lot of what is screwed up about the United States right now comes from the fact that
Congress is so at the mercy of presidents, on everything from wars to the budget.
Being a Senator is still kind of prestigious, but being in the House of Representatives
is basically a crappy telemarketing job.
It's very, very early, but it seems like Ocasio-Cortez might be able to change this.
Already over the past couple weeks, she has been driving the national news agenda from
the House of Representatives.
An unlike President Cheeto she has been starting real conversations about things that matter
domestically.
We haven't seen anything like this for decades.
And what's even better is the fact that she's too young to run for President before
2024.
Ocasio-Cortez could drop off the map tomorrow, the Public is fickle, but she seems to only
be gaining momentum, mostly by being willing to be more open and angry about the political
process than most other legislators.
If this continues, all her star power, and all her agenda setting ability, will be acting
to pump up the power of the US congress.
That's extraordinary…
So it turns out that the left wing answer to Donald Trump may actually end up giving
us a stronger congress, and a government that works more closely to the way the founders
intended.
That is not what I expected.
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