No, no, no. As soon as she won that primary MSNBC and CNN were touting her as one of the new "fresh faces for the future" of the Dem party. If they weren't, yes, she would have just been another freshman. Conservatives felt the need to respond and expose her for a dolt.
Of course, fellow freshman congresswoman Omar is trying to give her a run for her money.
She would have been just another freshman congressman, destined to get buried by the centrists in her own party, but conservatives have elevated her to a level where the Dems have to listen to her. The Overton Window is being shifted left all because republicans are threatened by a twentysomething from the Bronx.
Originally Posted by El-mo