Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Populism can take root and there's no monopoly on that.”

“How does a progressive make that case to a state that voted for the president, President Trump two times? How does that message work there? I mean, I think that what we are seeing is how populist politics Populism can take root and there's no monopoly on that. how you look on it, there's no monopoly on that. I think that when populism takes on this authoritarian flavor, then we get what we get right now with the president.” (07:13–07:29)

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