Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “This is a crisis for so many people, and it’s a crisis for everyday middle-class people.”

Scenes from New York: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) just renewed her lapsed membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) after a seven-year hiatus.

They are not beholden to any corporate interest or any party boss, and they are completely independent, which allows them to be responsible to their communities and the people that elected them.

Brothers and sisters, these drum majors for justice, just as you all and countless others today, were not handed a movement. They have always had to build one.

Let’s put a data center up in Mar-a-Lago, and we’ll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that.