1. Woke up and remembered the news about @Ocasio2018's victory last night. Called my 10-year-old, who's away this week, to share the news. A tween who begrudgingly went door-knocking in the hot sun, flashing her charming smile just to get a vote, finding out that it all paid off!
2. And then to hear her say: "Dada, it's just the primary. Ocasio can still lose the general." Pessimism of the intellect: it never gets old. Especially among the 10-year-old set!
3. Ocasio-Cortez's most important statement during the campaign: "I can’t name a single issue with roots in race that doesn’t have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn’t have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate
4. them out and choose one is a con.” We've come a long way from "not everything is about an economic theory, right?" I pray you: Let's not go back.
5. @CUNY students played a huge role in this. Just in our door-knocking, we met many students interested in @Ocasio2018. And @michaelkbusch organized an army of CUNY students to go door to door, house to house, day after day. If you're a journalist interested in the back story
6. to this victory, have Michael put you in touch with this new generation of rising activists and organizers who are changing the face and substance of our politics. They have their stories, they have their reasons and beliefs, they have an ideology: find out about them.
7. Ocasio-Cortez is a Latina, a democratic socialist, an organizer, a New Yorker. But watching her interviews last night, I realized something else: She's a natural politician. For some of you, that's a bad word. But you know what? In a political world, we on the left really need
8. people who know how to look someone in the eye, touch their arm with genuine warmth, make a direct connection that seems real (student and teacher of Machiavelli and Arendt that I am, I always emphasize, when it comes to politics, the seeming over the being), and who can turn
9. their own personal story into a larger narrative of the nation, the economy, and the world. That's exactly what Ocasio-Cortez can do. Like I said, she's a natural.
10. Okay, I'm going back off social media. This book's not going to get finished on Twitter. So, mazel tov to @Ocasio2018 and to everyone who made this sweet sweet victory possible. I'll see ya' when I see ya'.
