Knock Down the House and the Democratic Party politics of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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(In other words, their aim is to promote candidates who can give a new face to the Democratic Party while leaving unchanged the content of the party’s politics: enter Ocasio-Cortez, and also the DSA.)

(Nothing remains of her criticisms of US militarism that won her a standing ovation from a small crowd of workers in one her first district debates (against a stand-in for Crowley) featured in a striking scene of the documentary.)

{Notably absent from the film, it should be mentioned, is any reference to socialism, despite the fact that the two most popular figures in the Democratic Party, not to mention the protagonist of the film, at least occasionally identify as “democratic socialists.”}

The narrative that AOC came from just being a bar tender to defeating a strong incumbent democrat is fictional. She spent a vast amount of her time in collage preparing for a political career, and worked under Ted Kennedy in his section on foreign affairs and immigration issues. The fact that this information is purposely left out and never mentioned alone is enough to make one question her true motives.