Move over, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi: AOC becomes conservatives' top foe at this year's CPAC gathering by alexnazaryan
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is the new speaker of the House, but the name of the San Francisco liberal was rarely uttered at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering held south of Washington, D.C. Demonized for much of the 2018 political season in Republican ads and presidential tweets, she had been, it seemed, entirely forgotten.
“The moment America becomes a socialist country is the moment America ceases to be America,” Vice President Mike Pence said on the convention’s second day. Speaking shortly thereafter, former White House official Sebastian Gorka warned that progressives are seeking to “take away your hamburgers,” and that this represented Stalinism in its purest form.
Indeed, the goal of many attendees and speakers was to paint Ocasio-Cortez as dangerously uninformed. “You have a 29-year-old socialist and the only thing she’s done on policy issues in her life is bartending, yet she’s driving an entire national agenda,” said one conservative activist, according to a McClatchy report. Ocasio-Cortez tended bar in New York before turning to politics.
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