Why conservatives should hope for more Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Source: Washington Examiner | June 28, 2018 | Tom Rogan

Conservatives should welcome more Democratic Party candidates in the ideological vein of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

I say that because Ocasio-Cortez is well outside the mainstream of American political thought. And when, as is almost certain, the 28-year-old wins election from her progressive 14th Congressional District of New York, she’ll crystallize the Democrats significant drift to the Left. That will give conservatives new opportunity to explain why their ideology serves people better than progressive politics.

Of course, the establishment Left sees it very differently.

At Vox.com, which increasingly styles itself a sort of progressive reference guide, Dylan Scott argues that Ocasio-Cortez’s support for the “emerging litmus test of the American left,” is a vote winner. This list includes Medicare for all, a federal jobs guarantee, tuition-free college for all, repealing the Citizens United Supreme Court decision by constitutional amendment (i.e., repealing the First Amendment), abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, restoring great depression era financial regulations, a “green new deal to be fossil free by 2035,” and banning privately owned prisons.

Scott uses polling data to suggest that these big ticket items are popular with the public. But that polling is quite deceptive. It asks how phrases like “Medicare for all” make respondents feel. But were it accurately reflective of public sentiments, the poll would ask respondents how they feel about the phrase “medicare for all, paid for by a $1 trillion annual tax increase.”

That clarity is the conservative opportunity.

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With facts on our side and new ideas at our fingertips, conservatives should welcome more candidates like Ocasio-Cortez. They are not the saviors of the Left, but walking advertisements for conservatism!

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