AOC reshapes Democratic Party from 'safe district,' Peggy Noonan writes

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal columnist, penned a column published Thursday that examined Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's influence and effort to shape the Democratic Party -- and call out moderates-- from a "completely safe district."

Noonan wrote that Ocasio-Cortez and fellow members of "The Squad," have all shown adeptness in social media and "have fully broken through and made their mark." But not without a price paid for by other members of their party who don't have the benefit of coming from a district that offers "job security no Democratic moderate can feel."

“Nancy Pelosi said a glass of water could be elected in her district if it were a Democrat, and it’s true,” she wrote.

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Ocasio-Cortez has recently railed against Democrats like Joe Biden and Pelosi.

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This week, she called Pelosi “outright disrespectful” for admonishing her and three other freshman congresswomen over their airing of Democratic infighting on social media.

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Noonan wrote that Ocasio-Cortez's influence will come back to bite Democrats in the future. “For all these reasons Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has been destructive to her party’s chances in 2020. She is a one-woman Committee to Re-Elect the President,” she concluded.

"The way I read it now, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has been dunked on by a pro and schooled by Big Mama," Noonan wrote. "If she were capable of observing, reflecting and absorbing, as opposed to aggressing, reacting and accusing, she could learn something."