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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejects Aaron Sorkin's call for new Democrats to grow up
Source: The Guardian
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejects Aaron Sorkin's call for new Democrats to grow up
Congresswoman takes issue with the The West Wing creator’s suggestion that the fight for equality is a trend
Stephanie Convery
Mon 21 Jan 2019 00.35 GMT Last modified on Mon 21 Jan 2019 00.54 GMT
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hit back at Aaron Sorkin after the Oscar-winning screenwriter said on Sunday that the young Democrats needed to “stop acting like young people.”
Sorkin, 57, told Fareed Zakaria in an interview on CNN on Sunday morning: “I really like the new crop of young people who were just elected to Congress. They now need to stop acting like young people, okay? It’s time to do that.”
“I think that there’s a great opportunity here, now more than ever, for Democrats to be the non-stupid party, to point out the difference,” Sorkin said. “That it’s not just about transgender bathrooms. That’s a Republican talking point they’re trying to distract you with. That we haven’t forgotten the economic anxiety of the middle class, but we’re going to be smart about this; we’re not going to be mean about it.”
Sorkin then talked about his father, a second world war veteran, who remembered a time when the US would be welcomed in other parts of the world and would greet refugees with “a hand and a hot meal and say, ‘welcome to the new world’.”
“That’s who we are, that’s who we should be,” Sorkin said.
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Congresswoman takes issue with the The West Wing creator’s suggestion that the fight for equality is a trend
Stephanie Convery
Mon 21 Jan 2019 00.35 GMT Last modified on Mon 21 Jan 2019 00.54 GMT
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hit back at Aaron Sorkin after the Oscar-winning screenwriter said on Sunday that the young Democrats needed to “stop acting like young people.”
Sorkin, 57, told Fareed Zakaria in an interview on CNN on Sunday morning: “I really like the new crop of young people who were just elected to Congress. They now need to stop acting like young people, okay? It’s time to do that.”
“I think that there’s a great opportunity here, now more than ever, for Democrats to be the non-stupid party, to point out the difference,” Sorkin said. “That it’s not just about transgender bathrooms. That’s a Republican talking point they’re trying to distract you with. That we haven’t forgotten the economic anxiety of the middle class, but we’re going to be smart about this; we’re not going to be mean about it.”
Sorkin then talked about his father, a second world war veteran, who remembered a time when the US would be welcomed in other parts of the world and would greet refugees with “a hand and a hot meal and say, ‘welcome to the new world’.”
“That’s who we are, that’s who we should be,” Sorkin said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rejects-aaron-sorkins-call-for-new-democrats-to-grow-up
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