NY Times Endorsement: "Ms. Ocasio-Cortez may be the most talented young politician in the country."

[brooklynite]

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needs no introduction. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez may be the most talented young politician in the country. In her first term, she helped build a national progressive movement, becoming a leading voice on climate change, income inequality and racist policing. Her masterly questioning of the former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen before the House Oversight and Reform Committee last year helped reveal the extent of Mr. Trump’s misconduct.

If, as we hope, she wins a second term, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez should devote energy and resources to constituent services, one area where her community is hungry for more of her attention. Her competitors in this year’s primary, including Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former Republican and CNBC journalist who says she wants to focus on jobs, have tried to capitalize on Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s national, rather than local, focus.
Ms. Ocasio Cortez’s shortcomings as a community representative, which can be remedied if she puts her mind to it, are not reason enough to deny re-election to someone who has been such a determined champion of vulnerable people everywhere.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/new-york-congress-endorsements.html

Do you just hate that "corporate media"?

[KentuckyWoman]

1. I don't view her as a politician.

She was elected to Congress based on the fact she stands on the side of what is right and decent. "Politicians" tend to play the game and I haven't seen any evidence AOC intends to do so.

[BannonsLiver]

2. Meh.

[madville]

4. Exactly

AOC is the most prominent Democrat endorsing this defund/abolish the police nonsense.

[BannonsLiver]

13. The bottom line for me is productivity

What’s annoying is that Katie Porter is by far and away the most effective first term congresswoman in the bunch and gets almost no credit. She’s run circles around the squad with little fanfare.

[wellst0nev0ter]

17. "The Squad should act more like the white woman"

Good message there, chief.

I have nothing against Katie Porter. She's the progressive we need, along with The Squad.

[cwydro]

6. With you.

Meh.

[mzmolly]

15. Meh # 3

here.

[Demsrule86]

10. Meh too...she is OK.

[Voltaire2]

3. Good for the NYT.

Too bad about the snark commentary, but to address the ‘point’, the NYT does many things right, and it has done some amazingly horrible things, like for example their boosting the bullshit leading up to the Iraq war, their normalization of at least the first three years of the Trump administration, and the decision to publish Tom Cotton’s call for a military crackdown on citizens exercising their 1st amendment rights.

When they do something right, good for them. When they do something wrong, they suck.

[The Magistrate]

5. The Young Lady Should Have A Splendid Career Before Her, Sir

She has the 'X-factor', without a doubt.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Rep. Ocasio Cortez makes me proud to be a registered Democrat.

Good On the People of New York.

[sheshe2]

8. No comment.

[Laelth]

9. She's a star, for better or for worse.

This was an easy call for the NYT.

-Laelth

[awesomerwb1]

11. Cough cough hic cough

This rag hasn't been the same for years.

[comradebillyboy]

12. Since AOC doesn't seem to be interested in working

with other Democrats to craft legislation I am pretty dubious about her ever being more than a noisy back bencher.

[BannonsLiver]

14. At this rate that's where she's headed

Nothing is promised.

[wellst0nev0ter]

16. Did they co-endorse her opponent too?

New York Times endorsements are garbage.