Summary
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Elon Musk “one of the most unintelligent billionaires” she has ever met.
She criticized DOGE for placing unqualified 19-year-olds in Treasury positions and failing to do “their homework.”
Musk’s team has accessed the Treasury’s $6 trillion payment system, raising security concerns. Ocasio-Cortez warned of his “lack of intelligence and expertise,” calling him “morally vacant.”
DOGE has also shut down USAID and moved it under the State Department.
She’s outside the Overton Window. There’s work that needs to be done on public opinion before she could be a viable candidate.
Trump was outside the Overton window too.
And Fox News engaged in a multi-decade Overton Window moving effort to make someone like him a viable candidate.
Progressives want to shortcut the work, and just swing for the fences every four years. Trump is the product of a decades long campaign to make conservative ideas not sound crazy.
OTOH, there’s a lot of Bernie-Trump voters. People don’t want business as usual, and that’s all the democrats really want to offer.
You don’t move the Overton from the inside, you pull from the extremes so compromise still lands in your favor.
Didn’t say how you move it: but you have to move it before AOC is a candidate. You don’t move it (and also win) by just starting with her as a candidate.