Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezmade history in 2018 as theyoungest woman ever to win a seatin Congress, and in the year since she’s become one of the most famous Democratic politicians in the country — in no small part thanks to herviral social media postsandsharp questioningat House hearings.Even so, the sudden fame has been an adjustment.In a newNew Yorkmagazine profile, Ocasio-Cortez, now 30, says she’s missed the “anonymity” of a private life since shocking the political world and winning her primary and then general election.“I realized this was going to be a tattoo-on-my-face kind of situation,” she toldNew Yorkthis week. “I can’t go outside anymore. I miss being able to go out to dinner. I miss anonymity. I have to send my boyfriend out to get groceries. There has been a shift in chores.”Ocasio-Cortez’s unabashed progressive ideas have made her popular among liberals and a magnet for conservative criticism.Some of the reproval is policy-based. But a lot of it is about her image, style and personality. And, like any politician with a fast-rising profile, her mistakes (big, small and insignificant) have been seized upon.She is not shy about responding: in interviews, in Congress and on Twitter, where she has more than six million followers. According to one study, she commands a social media reachsecond only to President Donald Trump.Addressing the criticism last year,she said, “He [Trump] doesn’t have another woman,Hillary Clintonor whoever else, to vilify anymore, so they need to find another woman to kind of prop up and become a lightning rod.”William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty ImagesTheNew Yorkpiece focuses on Ocasio-Cortez’s willingness to stick to her guns even when split from her own colleagues in the Democratic Party. She re-told the moment she joined an environmentalist group for a sit-in at Democratic leader NancyPelosi‘s office in order to push for the so-called “Green New Deal” about a week after winning her election.“It was terrifying,” Ocasio-Cortez remembered, adding, “It felt like the right thing to do.”She credited Vermont Sen.Bernie Sandersas her hero while saying that his longtime push to educate the public about politics is ultimately what informed her own perspective.She has endorsed Sanders in the2020 presidential election.“Politics should be pop because it should be consumable and accessible to everyday people,” she said in the article. “I think that’s what populism is about.”
Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezmade history in 2018 as theyoungest woman ever to win a seatin Congress, and in the year since she’s become one of the most famous Democratic politicians in the country — in no small part thanks to herviral social media postsandsharp questioningat House hearings.
Even so, the sudden fame has been an adjustment.
In a newNew Yorkmagazine profile, Ocasio-Cortez, now 30, says she’s missed the “anonymity” of a private life since shocking the political world and winning her primary and then general election.
“I realized this was going to be a tattoo-on-my-face kind of situation,” she toldNew Yorkthis week. “I can’t go outside anymore. I miss being able to go out to dinner. I miss anonymity. I have to send my boyfriend out to get groceries. There has been a shift in chores.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s unabashed progressive ideas have made her popular among liberals and a magnet for conservative criticism.
Some of the reproval is policy-based. But a lot of it is about her image, style and personality. And, like any politician with a fast-rising profile, her mistakes (big, small and insignificant) have been seized upon.
She is not shy about responding: in interviews, in Congress and on Twitter, where she has more than six million followers. According to one study, she commands a social media reachsecond only to President Donald Trump.
Addressing the criticism last year,she said, “He [Trump] doesn’t have another woman,Hillary Clintonor whoever else, to vilify anymore, so they need to find another woman to kind of prop up and become a lightning rod.”
William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images
TheNew Yorkpiece focuses on Ocasio-Cortez’s willingness to stick to her guns even when split from her own colleagues in the Democratic Party. She re-told the moment she joined an environmentalist group for a sit-in at Democratic leader NancyPelosi‘s office in order to push for the so-called “Green New Deal” about a week after winning her election.
“It was terrifying,” Ocasio-Cortez remembered, adding, “It felt like the right thing to do.”
She credited Vermont Sen.Bernie Sandersas her hero while saying that his longtime push to educate the public about politics is ultimately what informed her own perspective.
She has endorsed Sanders in the2020 presidential election.
“Politics should be pop because it should be consumable and accessible to everyday people,” she said in the article. “I think that’s what populism is about.”
source: people.com
