After Dark

AOC, the Commie from the Bronx
After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez often highlights her Bronx roots, but her upbringing was mostly in suburban Yorktown Heights. This piece contrasts her narrative with that of Jennifer Lopez, another Bronx native, and examines how AOC's middle-class background shapes her political persona as a champion of socialism and the working class, despite a life far from poverty...