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Vanity Fair: Rallying the Dems: How AOC Brings Life to the Party
Vanity Fair - ( https://archive.ph/sk69j ) Rallying the Dems: How AOC Brings Life to the Party
Hive editors observe how the 35-year-old congresswoman is “speaking in much clearer terms” about Donald Trump than the rest of her party, which still suffers from an “addiction to deference.”
By Meena Ganesan
April 2, 2025
“If you had to sum up the Democratic Party’s response to the Trump administration since the election in just a word or two, what would you say?”
“Long silence.”
“Feeble…disarray.”
“Depressed.”
Sigh.
That was the opening question of this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, hosted by Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones alongside executive editor Claire Howorth and Hive editor Michael Calderone. But the group quickly turned its discussion to signs of life and positivity found on the left side of the political aisle: these “fight oligarchy” rallies where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have been packing arenas and electrifying crowds with a clear message of opposition to greed and corruption.
Ocasio-Cortez could be one of the key people to bring the Democratic Party to life. She, as VF contributing editor Michelle Ruiz notes, “has a way of emerging when she’s really needed” and “being really vocal when people are looking for a leader.” In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman elected to Congress. Ruiz joined the episode to discuss the 2020 profile she wrote about the New York congresswoman and says the 35-year-old got on her radar during her first congressional campaign. “She was part of this groundswell of younger, more diverse people running in the 2018 election. I think very much an opposition to Donald Trump,” says Ruiz. She was a regular millennial woman, hustling all around New York campaigning, wearing sneakers. She had this authenticity that really showed in a viral campaign ad that, as Calderone notes, introduced her in a powerful and moving way but was also unclouded in its message: “How does our politics affect everyday people?”
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Hive editors observe how the 35-year-old congresswoman is “speaking in much clearer terms” about Donald Trump than the rest of her party, which still suffers from an “addiction to deference.”
By Meena Ganesan
April 2, 2025
“If you had to sum up the Democratic Party’s response to the Trump administration since the election in just a word or two, what would you say?”
“Long silence.”
“Feeble…disarray.”
“Depressed.”
Sigh.
That was the opening question of this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, hosted by Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones alongside executive editor Claire Howorth and Hive editor Michael Calderone. But the group quickly turned its discussion to signs of life and positivity found on the left side of the political aisle: these “fight oligarchy” rallies where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have been packing arenas and electrifying crowds with a clear message of opposition to greed and corruption.
Ocasio-Cortez could be one of the key people to bring the Democratic Party to life. She, as VF contributing editor Michelle Ruiz notes, “has a way of emerging when she’s really needed” and “being really vocal when people are looking for a leader.” In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman elected to Congress. Ruiz joined the episode to discuss the 2020 profile she wrote about the New York congresswoman and says the 35-year-old got on her radar during her first congressional campaign. “She was part of this groundswell of younger, more diverse people running in the 2018 election. I think very much an opposition to Donald Trump,” says Ruiz. She was a regular millennial woman, hustling all around New York campaigning, wearing sneakers. She had this authenticity that really showed in a viral campaign ad that, as Calderone notes, introduced her in a powerful and moving way but was also unclouded in its message: “How does our politics affect everyday people?”
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