Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Bernie Sanders campaign staffer-turned-socialist congressional candidate, considered herself a disciple of Adam Smith – the father of modern free-market economics – and said terms such as “feminism” were “relics from the past.”
Lukas Mikelionis, of Fox News, reports:
Since then, Ocasio-Cortez has come out as an unapologetic democratic socialist, wishing to see greater taxation and expansion and creation of wide-ranging social programs such as a single-payer health care system, free education, and housing as a right.
“I think my strength is I’m honest and authentic,” she told “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah last week. Those qualities helped her in June to beat top Democrat Joe Crowley, whose name was floated as the next speaker of the U.S. House.
But not that long ago, 28-year-old Ocasio-Cortez harbored a lot milder if not radically different views. During her time at Boston University, where she studied economics and international relations and graduated in 2011 with cum laude honors, she described herself as a believer in Adam Smith’s analyses and wrote a number of blog posts hinting at her views, according to posts reviewed by Fox News.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes in Mahatma Ghandi’s methods, Adam Smith’s analyses, and Pablo Neruda’s love. Her experiences growing up in a Puerto Rican household, from the boroughs to beyond, has afforded her a uniquely American experience with all the tragedy and hilarity it accompanies,” she described herself in a student-run publication called BU Culture Shock, which she co-founded.
Although Smith died in the nineteenth century, there’s no question he would never endorse the views espoused by social democrats.
Interestingly, Ocasio-Cortez is also missing from President Obama’s highly-publicized 2018 endorsement list.
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