Five freshman Democratic women in the House want the world to know that the newcomers receiving the most attention so far in the 116th Congress aren’t reflective of the women who ran and won in tough districts last fall.At an event to tout their formation of a joint fundraising committee to tap each other’s donors (and hopefully bring in more), the five, all with military or intelligence backgrounds, never mentioned New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by name.But the message from Reps. Elaine Luria and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Chrissy Houlahanof Pennsylvania was clear: Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t represent them, and she’s not the one who’s going to help Democrats maintain their majority.AOC has to keep the little gentrifiers, but this new group appeals to them. All these dems above have military backgrounds, they are a Nixon vote when a family is not sure about that drug trade. Our new kids have been shocked, time and again since 2006. They want a timeout from grand plans.AOC, the radicals and their union buddies have bailouts they want today. But the gentrifiers fear they will break something, again, force another five years of volatility into their lives.
Calm down, this has been a message since Clinton, no more big wars, no more big social projects, keep our heads low and quit stirring the pot. But now the gentrifiers have it bad, frightened at government ability to waltz in and screw their lives.
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