MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
The self-owns are real, and they’re spectacular.
By Rachel Larimore @ TheBulwark.com, Jan. 6
[....] Republicans, on the other hand, should be learning something from AOC: The source of her popularity isn’t her moonbeam democratic-socialism. It’s her character. She’s fresh and genuine. She does video chats while she does laundry. She is, honestly, a normal person. The freshman who most resembles AOC as a political commodity is probably Dan Crenshaw, the one-eyed Republican Navy SEAL from Texas. Their politics couldn’t be more different, but their appeals—normal, concerned, citizens who had to beat party political machines to get to the House—are pretty similar [....]