Lots of controversy surrounding NY Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  She’s brought tremendous energy to young progressives around the country.  She’s a force with a lot of young Democrats.  Her detractors call her names and think she’s an idiot.  She is not an idiot.  She’s very street-smart.  She’s not terribly well-learned on history or economics however and she’s easily exposed.  Why start my musings with comments about her?  AOC has been hugely successful with a formula that’s worked really well for her biggest target—President Donald Trump.  She might despise him but she uses his tactics often—she’s bombastic and energetic and gets away with a lot.  The national media is afraid of her. She’s caught some heat (not from the mainstream media) with the recent comments comparing what we’re doing as a country down on the southern border to concentration camps of Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.  Wow.  Now, I might be hyper-sensitive…