decry so-called socialism and democratic extremism. while she wasn t there, the star of the cpac conference might have been freshman democratic congressman alexandria ocasio-cortez, whose policies attendees reference time and time again. stim with us, anita kumar and daniel dale. there seems to be an obsession, anita, on the right with alexandria ocasio-cortez. and you reference a story that one of your colleagues wrote about why there s this obsession with her and why conservatives are actually quite in awe of her. they are. my colleague wrote a story about how all these people on the right wish they were her. they don t like her policies but say they she has political game, meaning she is determined and has this political spirit and on social media is a lot like president trump, taking on the media. and that sort of personality,
politically in its own right and also harmful legally. it gets at that same thing without going to this politically tricky impeachment avenue. anita and daniel are sticking with us. coming up, trump stakes the stage at cpac tomorrow, but the star of the conservative conference is a democratic socialist from the bronx. we re back right after this. finding dental and vision insurance plans
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of the cpac conference might have been freshman democratic congressman alexandria ocasio-cortez, whose policies attendees reference time and time again. still with us, anita kumar and daniel dale. there seems to be an obsession, anita, on the right with alexandria ocasio-cortez. and you reference a story that one of your colleagues wrote about why there s this obsession with her and why conservatives are actually quite in awe of her. they are. my colleague wrote a story about how all these people on the right wish they were her. they don t want her policies. they don t like her policies but say they she has political game, meaning she is determined and has this political spirit and on social media. she s actually a lot like president trump taking on the media. and that sort of personality, they really actually kind of admire. and so she she really did
changed over the years, daniel. well, in various ways. there were times where it was this forum for sort of raucous debate among various elements of the right. in recent years, it became sort of trump pac. i think he joked it would be tpac, thoroughly taken over by trumpian conservatism, which some traditional conservatives say is not conservativism at all. and then this year it was again thoroughly taken over by trump. but, you know, it was less about him and his accomplishments and what he plans to do going forward than about the menace posed by the democrats. so i think that was a shift even from last year. anita, a lot of the plans that progressives on the democratic side, democratic socialists are proposing are quite popular when you poll them among everyday americans. broadly supportive of tax reform, et cetera. is it a good idea for republicans to just laugh at her and make fun of her? is that the effective way of