{"id":367226,"date":"2018-06-29T06:54:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T05:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-party-for-old-white-men\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T06:54:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T05:54:48","slug":"no-party-for-old-white-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-party-for-old-white-men\/","title":{"rendered":"No Party for Old White Men"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Nancy Pelosi, 78, Steny Hoyer, 79, and Joe Biden, 75, the primary results from New York\u2019s 14th congressional district are a fire bell in the night.<\/p>\n

All may be swept away in the coming revolution. That is the message of the crushing defeat of 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley, who had aspired to succeed Pelosi and become speaker of the House.<\/p>\n

The No. 4 House Democrat, Crowley, 56, had not faced primary opposition since 2004. He outspent his opponent, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was tending bar a year ago, by 10 to one.<\/p>\n

The son of an Irish immigrant, Crowley was leader of the Queens Democratic Club. He had the unions\u2019 support. So confident was he that he skipped a debate and sent a Latina politician to stand in for him.<\/p>\n

First comes Hubris, the god of arrogance. Then comes Nemesis, the goddess of retribution.<\/p>\n

Tossing Crowley\u2019s credentials back in his face, Ocasio-Cortez ran as a Latina, a person of color, a millennial and militant socialist who lived in her district, and painted Crowley as a white male with lots of PAC money who had moved to D.C. and sent his kids to school in Virginia.
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\u201cThe Democratic Party takes working-class communities for granted; they take people of color for granted,\u201d railed Ocasio-Cortez. The party assumes \u201cthat we\u2019re going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping (their) proposals are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBland or half-stepping\u201d are not words her agenda calls to mind.<\/p>\n

A Democratic Socialist, endorsed by MoveOn, Black Lives Matter and People for Bernie, Ocasio-Cortez favors Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage, 100 percent renewable energy by 2035, free tuition at public colleges, federal…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For Nancy Pelosi, 78, Steny Hoyer, 79, and Joe Biden, 75, the primary results from New York\u2019s 14th congressional district are a fire bell in the night. All may be swept away in the coming revolution. That is the message of the crushing defeat of 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley, who had aspired to succeed Pelosi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}