Enough people have threatened to kill democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that her staff has been trained to evaluate visitors to her Capitol Hill office — even people who just leave Post-It notes on the plaque in the hallway.
The stunning reality of being America's new liberal 'it' girl, a media darling who incenses conservatives, is laid bare in a Time profile that landed the New York congressional freshman on the magazine's cover.
Ocasio-Cortez, 29, may appear like she relishes the attention in public. But in private, the realities of life in a political bubble are sinking in.
'I miss being able to go outside in sweats,' she told Time this month. 'I can’t go anywhere in public and just be a person without a lot of people watching everything I do.'
The Democratic congresswoman from the Bronx, 'Wonder Woman of the left and wicked witch of the right' in the lengthy interview, complained that her millennial generation has grown up in an America that falls short of its promise.
Eight years of Barack Obama's economy hasn't assuaged the nation's socialist youth, she suggested: 'An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.'
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the cover of Time this month
'I have never seen that, or experienced it, really, in my adult life.'
Time explores her influences, including the father who moved his family from a working-class New York City neighborhood to a tonier Westchester address to improve his children's schooling options.
By the time the future politician finished her first year at Boston University, he had lung cancer.
'I didn’t know that it was going to be the last time that I talked to my dad,' Ocasio-Cortez said of one hospital visit, 'but toward the end of our interaction, I started to feel like it was.'
'I said goodbye, but I think he knew, and I knew. And so I started to leave, and he kind of hollered out, and I turned around in the doorframe, and he said, "Hey, make me proud".'
A decade later, Ocasio-Cortez is teetering on the edge of a political phenomenon that's out of proportion with her power to change a nation as America remains resistant to the leftism that catapulted her to stardom.
'America isn’t her district,' former Barack Obama adviser Joel Benenson told Time. He argued that Democrats shouldn't run so hard toward socialism that they forget to placate the moderates who comprise most of the party.
'Democrats shouldn’t take the bait,' he said.
It's unclear how much sticking power the Latina political darling has: Polling data from Gallup show that her public approval rating nosedived since she burst onto the political scene.
Significantly more Americans recognize the Democratic congresswoman's name since a combination of socialism and shoe leather catapulted her to stardom with a Democratic primary win over a 10-term incumbent.
Just 21 per cent of American adults told Gallup's pollsters last month that they didn't know who Ocasio-Cortez was. That number was 50 per cent in September, before she coasted to victory in the general election.
But the more people recognize her, the less they like what they hear: The number of people who have unfavorable views of the 29-year-old lawmaker from New York has grown far faster than her fan base.
Ocasio-Cortez won a favorable rating from 24 per cent of Americans In Gallup's September poll, compared with 26 per cent who disagreed.
Those numbers both grew by February, to 31 per cent favorable and 41 per cent unfavorable. That means the proportion her detractors have grown by 15 per cent while her backers grew just 7 per cent.
The democratic socialist wunderkind has more admirers than opponents among nonwhites, women, Americans age 18-35 and self-identified Democrats. Every other demographic is against her.
It remains to be seen whether Ocasio-Cortez's carriage will turn into a pumpkin by the time she stands for re-election next year.
Time notes that she 'boosted the grassroots effort to block Amazon’s plan to establish a new hub in New York,' costing the city 25,000 jobs.
That's a move that New Yorkers blame her for, more than any other player in the high-stakes drama.
In a Siena College poll, 38 per cent of voters from the state of New York picked the 29-year-old lawmaker as the episode's biggest 'villain.' Just 12 per cent praised her as a 'hero.'
Amazon itself wore the goat horns just 26 per cent of the time.
Ocasio-Cortez celebrated the Amazon pullout, objecting to $2.8 billion in tax breaks the online retail giant was to receive.
Backers of the jobs plan pointed out that the long-term tax receipts could have reached $27 billion, about 9 times as much as the giveaways to the company Jeff Bezos built.
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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