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Six on Politics: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Legacy of the Bernie Sanders Movement; Socialist Darling Caught Celebrating, Campaigning With Known Anti-Semite And Racist; Democrats face tea party-style internal battle as progressives push for change; the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening; NRA leaders are terrified of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Does incivility hurt democracy? Here’s what political science can tell us.

 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Legacy of the Bernie Sanders Movement

"Last month, Crowley’s victory looked so assured that he sent a surrogate to a debate with Ocasio-Cortez rather than attend himself. Crowley had been handpicked for his seat in Congress years ago by Thomas Manton, the last great boss of the Queens Democratic machine. But the Fourteenth District—a collection of mostly working-class neighborhoods straddling Queens and the Bronx—is now half Hispanic and just a fifth white. Crowley’s loss to the daughter of working-class Puerto Ricans confirmed a change in outer-borough political power that has both been inevitable and long delayed. But it was more than that, too. During her campaign, Ocasio-Cortez called for Congress to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pledged her support for a federal jobs guarantee and Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-all program, called for aggressive antitrust regulation that would break up the tech giants, and ran with the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America. For a while this spring, the midterms looked increasingly predictable and contained: it would be a partisan fight between Donald Trump and his opponents, waged in a fixed number of swing districts. Ocasio-Cortez’s victory suggests that the map may be larger than that."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Legacy of the Bernie Sanders Movement

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Legacy of the Bernie Sanders Movement Her victory proves again the central insight of Sanders’s 2016 campaign: that the Democratic establishment is as...

Democrats face tea party-style internal battle as progressives push for change

Democrats face tea party-style internal battle as progressives push for change

Democrats face tea party-style internal battle as progressives push for ... The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com Rep. Joe Crowley’s primary loss this week sent shockwaves through congressional Democrats, who face the prospect...

Socialist Darling Caught Celebrating, Campaigning With Known Anti-Semite And Racist

Socialist Darling Caught Celebrating, Campaigning With Known Anti-Semite And Racist

Socialist Darling Caught Celebrating, Campaigning With Known Anti-Semite... 'You are a weak, little short man who sucks White/Jewish c**k'

Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening

"But they had a connection, one Mr. Trump was quick to note in the moments after his first address to Congress in February 2017. As he made his way out of the chamber, Mr. Trump paused to chat with the justice.

“Say hello to your boy,” Mr. Trump said. “Special guy.”

Mr. Trump was apparently referring to Justice Kennedy’s son, Justin. The younger Mr. Kennedy spent more than a decade at Deutsche Bank, eventually rising to become the bank’s global head of real estate capital markets, and he worked closely with Mr. Trump when he was a real estate developer, according to two people with knowledge of his role.

During Mr. Kennedy’s tenure, Deutsche Bank became Mr. Trump’s most important lender, dispensing well over $1 billion in loans to him for the renovation and construction of skyscrapers in New York and Chicago at a time other mainstream banks were wary of doing business with him because of his troubled business history."

Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening

Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening Its goal was to assure Justice Anthony M. Kennedy that his judicial legacy would be in good hands should he deci...

NRA leaders are terrified of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, issue bizarre, fear-mongering battle cry

"The National Rifle Association is running scared of socialists.

Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's primary win over Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday prompted the gun lobbying group to issue a panic-stricken call to arms.

"Left-wing socialists have infiltrated our nation and want to fundamentally change the country we love," NRATV host Grant Stinchfield warns in an over-the-top video clip posted online Wednesday. "The socialist movement in America is real. It is dangerous. And it is more powerful than you may think."

NRA leaders are terrified of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, issue bizarre, fear-mongering battle cry - NY Daily News

NRA leaders are terrified of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, issue bizarre, fe... Denis Slattery NRA mounts fear-mongering campaign against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after her surprise primary win.

Does incivility hurt democracy? Here’s what political science can tell us.

"Unsurprisingly, our reaction to uncivil language depends on our partisan perspective. As political scientist Bryan Gervais showed, people exposed to incivility from the other party were angrier and more likely to respond with similar incivility. But when their own party did the attacking, respondents felt no such rush of emotion."

Analysis | Does incivility hurt democracy? Here’s what political science can tell us.

Analysis | Does incivility hurt democracy? Here’s what political science... Surprisingly, incivility increases political discussion.