Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Great Young Hope progressives deserve.
When, last Thursday, she was asked an elementary question about spending, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez struck her best Cobra Kai pose.
“I sat down with a Nobel Prize economist last week,” she exclaimed, contorting her face into Jack Nicholson’s and attempting to shoot webs from her fingers.
“I can’t believe I can say that,” she added. “It’s really weird!”
Alas, nothing from this brush with greatness appears to have worn off on her. Mere seconds elapsed between the boast and the disaster that followed.
Speaking to a friendly Trevor Noah, Ocasio-Cortez revealed that
- she does not know the difference between a one-year and a ten-year budget;
- confused the recent increase in defense spending with the entire annual cost of the military;
- implied that the population of the United States was around 800 million strong; and,
- having been asked to defend her coveted $15 minimum wage, launched into a rambling and inscrutable diatribe about “private equity” firms that would have been a touch too harsh as a parody on South Park.
- demonstrated her obliviousness to the fact that the United States economy exploded during the 1990s,
- to the manner in which unemployment numbers are calculated, and
- to even the most obvious facets of the Israel–Palestine question about which she has assured her supporters she is so passionate.
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