These types of divisions are different in character than issues of fundamental values that for generations cleaved the Democratic Party. ![]() If one side doesn’t like where the difference got split this year they can try again next year to split it more favorably. Different sides can simply split the difference. But programmatic differences of this sort almost never have existential implications for a party or the broader society. Yes, it is true that AOC and others on the Democratic left want to spend more money - in some cases a lot more - to empower activist government than more conservative Democrats. It is a difference grounded much less in ideology than meets the eye. ![]() It is a difference grounded in a cultural mindset about how politics should look, sound and feel. What divides AOC and her allies from others in the party is above all a theory of power: How to gain it, how to use it, how to keep it. But it’s right in a much more narrow way than is usually portrayed. A primary narrative of the Biden presidency is his difficulty holding together a party beset with wide and sometimes unbridgeable gulfs between left and center, between establishment forces and insurgent ones. This paradox makes AOC’s conversation with editor David Remnick a useful exhibit to illuminate a larger dynamic shadowing the Democratic Party. More conventional Democrats would not say it the same way she says it - and the way she says it often sets their teeth on edge - but much of what the supposedly radical AOC thinks is not actually so radical. In broad strokes, much of what AOC believes is similar to what many centrist Democrats - people who she disdains and who in turn typically disdain her - also believe. On close examination, however, there is something striking about the litany of tell-it-like-it-is opinions the hero of the Democratic left shared in her New Yorker interview. Manipur bars circulation of videos & photos of violence.Canada-India visa impasse puts flyers with tickets in fix.Amid Nijjar row, Canada Speaker to skip P20 Summit.Sell your tech to us, Nasa said: Isro chief. India among 4 big economies set to meet Paris climate goals.Pics | A lot can happen over Koraput coffee.Pics | Mum-Ngp eway deaths: What causing these accidents?.Karnataka on high alert after Zika virus found in mosquito sample.Supreme Court to govt: Will you remove opacity of electoral bonds?.GRAP 3 kicks in as Delhi's AQI turns severe.She lost to liquor store tycoon David Trone who polled 40.4 per cent vote to her 30.6 per cent vote. On Wednesday, the NYT called her a "Democratic Giant Slayer." In other results, Hyderabad-born Indian-American civil engineer Aruna Katragadda Miller came up short in an effort to win the Democratic ticket in Maryland's sixth congressional district abutting Washington DC. A sporting Crowley conceded defeat on Tuesday night and sang Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run in her honor. She eventually polled 58 per cent to Crowley's 42 per cent to produce a political earthquake. ![]() She raised only $200,000 during her campaign, compared to $3 million that Crowley drummed up. Her campaign was seen as such a long shot that her supporters said the New York Times did not dedicate a single article on her bid. A community organizer and a Bernie Sanders' supporter from a working class background, she has led left-wing protests against President Trump's immigration policies and has also called for nationalising health care. Part of the so-called "Resistance" left-wing movement that emerged to oppose Trump but has also clashed with the Democratic Party establishment, Ocasio-Cortez campaigned among other things for abolishing the federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. Trump Republicans see the likes of Ocasio-Cortez as being "loose" on immigration.
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