Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is Singlehandedly Shifting the Overton Window

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42. Do you remember when Howard Dean was on his meteoric rise?

He had an outburst of emotion at a campaign function and it was all down hill from there. The media basically buried him.

I am not saying that AOC should stop doing what she is doing. Other than a few bumps which may be overblown anyway, she has carried herself extremely well. What I am saying is the old adage of getting into problems with people who buy ink by the barrel.

My main point was for people not to anoint AOC as the next Messiah. I know that people like to think that one great personality will come along and make everything better. We saw it with President Obama, Bernie Sanders, and on the other side, right wingers saw it in Trump. The reality is that while able politicians or personalities can have impact on the situation, unless they work with others to sustain that impact, the load often becomes too heavy and they crumble, which is a story the media loves to tell.