The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez exemplifies The Catalyst, a leader whose primary effect is accelerating movement in others. Her 2018 primary upset over a senior incumbent reset assumptions about who can win in American politics, and her subsequent role in popularizing the Green New Deal framework pushed climate policy from the margins toward the center of Democratic debate.
“They were going to vote for it. It was also people who waited and then realized, oh, shit, Lil Pete dropped out. And Amy Clovachar dropped out. And then they coalesced around Joe Biden. Listen We've said it before. I don't think Joe Biden's a bad guy. I just don't think that he, one, has what it takes to take on Donald Trump.”
“Yeah, that you were for Warren so long shows me you don't know enough about politics to really be trusted. Glad you made the correct choice, but you're always too late with your growth, like when you were recently still a Republican, recently still a Republican That shows a fatal error in judgment that I can never forgive.”
“She was talking to people in the salon about how you just can't trust anything the media says. Nothing they say you can trust. And that's the atmosphere that Donald Trump has fomented. He has handcrafted this, relying on the paranoia of the right wing That Fox News is it, that's where the truth is. Everyone else has an agenda.”
“Imagine the generational damage that will be done to our judiciary and by virtue of that our country. A seven two conservative court. With Donald Trump picking two more justices, there's not a fucking chance Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to survive another four years of a presidency of Trump. To vote, to choose not to vote.”
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