was key to ocasioer on tez s platform. as a whole her policy stands were unabashedly leftist. getting money out of polit politics, medicare for all, fighting to are affordable housing, housing as a human right, abolishing i.c.e. i.c.e., the u.s. immigrations and customs enforcement agency, was created after the attacks on september 11th. ocasio-cortez confronted trump s zero tolerance immigration policy head-on, calling for the outright abolishment of i.c.e. a lot of establishment democrats did not want to address that issue because they didn t want to look like they were being soft on immigration. she was ahead of the curve, she forced them to address that issue. almost immediately ocasio-cortez s boldly progressive agenda seemed to have a palpable influence on the competition. within a week of alex announcing her campaign, joe crowley for the first time in his career supported medicare for all. she texted me the news where she was so excited about it.