Quote Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny View Post
New York Democratic primary just delivered a surprise
New York's 14th punted the 10-term incumbent to appoint a 28 year-old running on a solidly progressive platform:

https://www.wonkette.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez

Health-care for all, tuition free college; she has all that and more. Any further left and you'd have to declare a revolution (at least in America)
Does this signal Trump's "red wave" or something else?
It's a symptom of the increasing polarization of politics in the USA. Trumps deplorables love him for being combative and finally taking on the "enemy." Those who are in the opposite camp are encouraged to be even more ardently big-government and left wing.

You also forgot her plank on getting rid of ICE, and thus implicitly condoning free and unrestricted immigration.