I have written on New York’s elected Democratic Socialist of America member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez several times. It always amazes me that people comment on my social media that she is a one-off and nothing to worry about. Nothing could be further from the truth and the left is hoping you keep believing that nonsense. She is the snake in the progressive garden and the DNC has taken a big ole bite of the rotten apple. Not only did she defeat a longtime incumbent, Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY), who was set to take over for Pelosi, the 28 year-old millennial is now an overnight sensation in the Big Apple and across the country. Dems are lining up to congratulate her and to garner approval from Ocasio-Cortez. It’s embarrassing to watch. She also won the Reform Party nomination in New York’s 15th congressional district as a write-in candidate even though she didn’t run.

The young Latina is going to shake the DNC to its very core. She’s literally painting the party red as others follow her lead. Gubernatorial candidate, Cynthia Nixon, is now saying she’s a member of DSA. Julia Salazar is another DSAer looking to unseat Queens state Sen. Martin Dilan. But if you thought this was just wacky New York and California where this is a threat, you would be sadly and tragically mistaken. This is not hyperbole or fear mongering. This is a clear a present danger to our freedoms here in the U.S. Ocasio-Cortez’s victory may have been a shock, but it shouldn’t have been. DSA has been aggressively pushing candidates this year.

“The entire spectrum of House Democrats, party leadership, [campaign] leadership, is trying to assess what she wants to do and how ready she is to play ball,” said one Democratic source. They don’t get it… she’s not going to play ball. She’s going to reshape the party entirely. Dems are wondering “how does her coming to Washington change my plan, or even help my plan?” It lurches the party drastically to the left… permanently. Ocasio-Cortez is young, fresh and telegenic. She is the charismatic leader the left has waited for and many in the party are falling into line behind her. As Cynthia Nixon said, Nancy Pelosi has it dead wrong, socialism is ascendant in the Democratic Party.

Ocasio-Cortez may ruffle some socialist feathers as she arrives on the scene, but it’s all just nattering. The left by and far embraces communism and this is the next step for them. She plans to hit the campaign trail for at least three other Democratic candidates in primary races this year who are backed by Justice Democrats, a PAC that supports progressives. That includes Missouri congressional candidate Cori Bush, a former teacher, registered nurse and pastor who is vying to unseat longtime Democratic Rep. Lacy Clay. Ironic, since Clay is an old school Marxist.

“We’re trying to take back the House, but it seems like they’re just trying to go after Democrats. It makes no sense,” said Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), who vigorously defended Clay’s work on the Financial Services Committee. “I would hope that the new member coming in would … keep the eye on the prize.” She is, just not the prize Meeks is eyeing. Ocasio-Cortez just threw out the conventional Democratic playbook. She sees no point in it because it will just produce the same results they’ve had for the last decade. Time to get radical.

Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) said Democrats should take a lesson from Crowley, who accepted his defeat by serenading Ocasio-Cortez with a version of “Born to Run.” Give me a freaking break. “If we’re smart we’ll welcome her with open arms,” said Welch. Not all Democrats will slip so easily into the new red, velvety fold of the DNC. Grudges will be held and quashed. Ocasio-Cortez was an acolyte of Bernie Sanders and his minions are now ascendant in the party. I don’t think there is any stopping them at this point.

“She’s going to be a rock star and a huge progressive force the first day she arrives,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a Bay Area liberal who endorsed both Ocasio-Cortez and Crowley in the primary. Ocasio-Cortez will have enormous political firepower when she gets to Congress. She has nearly 700,000 Twitter followers. And most importantly, in the truest communist way, she is adept at propaganda. That is what won her race despite being outspent eighteen times over. After her victory, her team said it was dealing with 1,000 media requests and she quickly made the rounds not only on the news shows, but in interviews on “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert. The leftist media is smitten with her.

Lawmakers, who are very aware of the clout she may yield, have already begun reaching out to ask which caucuses she wants to join, whether she has leadership ambitions and what some of her broad ideas and goals might be. Ocasio-Cortez has no shortage of politicos who want to work with the rising red star as she contemplates her path in Congress. “I’ve already had many of my colleagues asking to reach out to her,” Khanna said. “Members of Congress aren’t fighting over her, but they’re very, very excited about the prospect of her joining a caucus and want the opportunity to work with her.” Who is he kidding? They are tripping over themselves as if she’s a goddess.

If you want proof of the left’s crush on Ocasio-Cortez, look no further than the Washington Post:

Running on bold progressive policies, including Medicare for all, Ocasio-Cortez and Jealous, former president of the NAACP, both soundly defeated opponents backed by the party establishment. Ocasio-Cortez’s victory was particularly stunning. Most insiders didn’t view the 28-year-old democratic socialist — who had worked as a bartender prior to her campaign — as a serious threat to Rep. Joseph Crowley, a 10-term incumbent who outspent her 18-to-1. Nonetheless, Ocasio-Cortez spent months knocking on doors in Queens and the Bronx with a platform that includes tuition-free college, a federal jobs guarantee, a green New Deal, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and an unapologetic rejection of the military-industrial complex. She won by 15 percentage points.

Ocasio-Cortez’s emergence is a huge story — one the Trump-obsessed media establishment largely missed. Outside of outlets on the progressive left such as the Intercept and the Nation, most mainstream news coverage ignored or dismissed Ocasio-Cortez until voters in her district forced them to pay attention.

Yet many media outlets still refuse to learn from their mistakes: Since the election, many pundits have misinterpreted her unlikely victory, chalking it up to local demographics, or sensationalizing her embrace of socialism without seriously considering her policy views. A cold-eyed look at the race shows clearly that Ocasio-Cortez didn’t simply ride demographic trends to victory. Rather, she connected with voters across racial and gender lines by running a grass-roots campaign that revolved around the challenges working people face. As Ocasio-Cortez put it, “We beat a machine with a movement.”

Critically, that movement was built on ideas, not just identity. Despite the persistent debate over the value of “identity politics,” Ocasio-Cortez understands that economic and racial justice are fundamentally intertwined. “I can’t name a single issue with roots in race that doesn’t have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn’t have racial implications,” she recently told the Nation. “The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con.”

It’s a seductive siren call to the deadly politics of communism and Ocasio-Cortez is the new communist face of millennials out there. While some establishment Democrats may balk at the sharp turn left by the DNC, most are thrilled by the truthiness of it all. If we don’t contain illegal immigrants and illegal voting, Ocasio-Cortez and the agenda of the DSA stand a good chance of sweeping through the nation like a horrific firestorm. This is why electing conservatives and keeping President Trump in office is so very important. The Cult of Personality is rising on the left. As Ocasio-Cortez put it, “strong, clear advocacy for working-class Americans isn’t just for the Bronx.”

WaPo also stated, “That’s the kind of advocacy that progressive insurgents are taking to voters nationwide. Along with Jealous, gubernatorial candidates Stacey Abrams and Cynthia Nixon are shaking up races in Georgia and New York. Congressional candidates such as Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley in Massachusetts and Cori Bush in Missouri are among those hoping to join Ocasio-Cortez and Kara Eastman, who defeated a conservative Democrat in Nebraska. Added to this is an exciting crop of state-level candidates that includes Julia Salazar (New York) and Emily Sirota (Colorado). Bolstered by grass-roots groups, these candidates are finding new and creative ways to spread their progressive message.” And there are many more out there.

Looks like New York is now ground zero for Democratic Socialists of America. Actress, activist and gubernatorial candidate, Cynthia Nixon, has just proclaimed that she is a DSA member. The actress-turned-candidate for governor enthusiastically embraced the Democratic Socialist moniker for the first time in a statement provided to Politico. She wants to be just like her new comrade-in-arms, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Nixon, who is backed by the communist Working Families Party, is challenging two-term incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Sept. 13 primary. Her spokeswoman, Lauren Hitt, made the point that Nixon endorsed two candidates who are members of the Democratic Socialists of America — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated Rep. Joe Crowley and Julia Salazar, a candidate who is challenging Queens state Sen. Martin Dilan. And then there were three. The left is dropping the mask entirely and going full commie. “She has also talked to other DSA members,” the Nixon spokeswoman added. I bet. DSA feels this is their time to rise and take over. It’s not just New York either.

From Politico for Nixon:

“Some more establishment, corporate Democrats get very scared by this term but if being a democratic socialist means that you believe health care, housing, education and the things we need to thrive should be a basic right not a privilege then count me in,” Nixon wrote. “As Martin Luther King put it, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism but we have to have a better distribution of wealth in this country. I have long stood in support of a millionaires tax, Medicare for all, fully funding our public schools, housing for all and rejecting all corporation donations — all of which align with democratic socialist principles.”

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During an interview with The Dig podcast, Nixon said she disagreed with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s negative response to a question about whether Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise primary victory over Rep. Joe Crowley meant socialism was ascendant in the Democratic Party.

“I think Nancy Pelosi is dead wrong, I think that is exactly what is happening,” Nixon said. “I think that of course wealthy people and big corporations have always had an outsized influence on American politics and world politics, but at this moment, when you look at what the agendas of corporations are and you look at governmental policies, there is almost no daylight between them.”

Nixon is all in on higher taxes on the wealthy to fund more government spending. She opposes privately managed, publicly funded charter schools. And I’m sure she is supporting all of the things that Ocasio-Cortez is: Obamacare, single-payer healthcare, abolishing ICE and the prison system, open borders, massive taxation, free education, free housing, guaranteed employment and a fixed income from the government, raising the minimum wage and the list goes on and on and on. Read the goals of communists… it’s all the same.

For his part, Cuomo has moved to the left in his second term, pushing for increases in the minimum wage, a family leave law and a tuition-free scholarship program for low- and middle-income students attending public colleges. He might as well be a DSAer himself, right along with Red de Blasio. When Cuomo first started out, he was a moderate-to-conservative on fiscal issues, but the Democrats and their base are lurching all the way to the left now and to survive, so is Cuomo.

Nixon met with members of the local chapter of Democratic Socialists of America at a forum Tuesday night, her campaign spokeswoman confirmed. It’s an attempt to win the leftist group’s endorsement. It shouldn’t take much. Not all DSAers are down with her membership however. “She’s not a socialist. Seriously. The DSA is not the f–king Working Families Party (thank god),” Tiffany Berruti, the DSA rep from CUNY said in a lengthy statement handed out at the meeting. Methinks the communist doth protest too much. Berruti described Nixon as a Hillary Clinton supporter. Well, commies of a feather.

Nixon is a New York millionaire… an elitist that is embracing communism. Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, said Nixon’s position was out of step with New Yorkers. “Millionaires like Cynthia Nixon may be able to dream about socialist paradises, but here in the real world, people can’t afford the taxes they have,” Molinaro stated. “New York spends too much as is. If Ms. Nixon thinks socialism is the answer, she should ask the people of Venezuela.” Excellent point. Better yet, go live there. Nixon and her wife had combined earnings of over $1.3 million in 2017, according to a May New York Times report. Their adjusted income after tax deductions was $619,799, according to the same report. Nixon has an estimated net worth of about $60 million, Newsweek reported in March 2018.

Nixon also tweeted on Tuesday, “Why don’t pundits who are so obsessed with @Ocasio2018 supporting democratic socialism ask corporate-backed politicians why they are so supportive of unfettered capitalism?” Honey, your redness is showing. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of course has endorsed Nixon.