Opinion | Matt Laslo: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's power in Washington is derived from the conservative obsession with her. - NBCNewsTHINK
And Ocasio-Cortez has been praised by many for producing what was largely seen as the most newsworthy moment in the bitterly partisan marathon testimony of former Trump lawyer and"fixer" Michael Cohen.
Still, conservatives persist in portraying her as powerful beyond belief, capable of wreaking havoc on everything they hold dear. Take February's Conservative Political Action Conference, which. This year conservative thought leaders focused much of their attention on and aimed their ire at Ocasio-Cortez — or at least at the papier-mâché likeness of her they’ve erected — instead of the hammering the much more powerful Pelosi or any of a variety of presidential contenders.
For instance, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. taunted AOC’s Green New Deal by repeating apopular, yet incorrect, impression of the Green New Deal: That she's trying to take away people's hamburgers. “I’ve got 100 cows — you just let Alexandria Cortez [sic] show up at my cows and try to take my cows away,” Falwell Jr. told the crowd.
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