AOC is Much Smarter Than Many Seem to Suspect

I've written before on how US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) carefully and calculatingly remade herself from an affluent life-long politico into a "working class bartender" to get herself elected to Congress. Theatrics like wearing "tax the rich" dresses at at parties with $30k ticket prices may strike some people as dumb, and for that matter may not always work out the way she intends, but there's method to the madness.

Now it looks like she's using a "credibly demand the whole ball of wax" parliamentary play to maneuver House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) into reversing position and supporting a ban on congrescritter stock trading.