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Conservatives can’t stop ripping into Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Progressives aren’t the only ones enamored with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — speakers Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Convention made her their No. 1 liberal punching bag.

Sebastian Gorka, a former aide to President Trump, name-dropped the Democratic congresswoman and then cued the boos, which quickly followed. He mocked her Green New Deal. “Remember this one, use it,” he said. “It’s a watermelon: green on the outside, deep deep communist red on the inside.”

“They want to take your pickup truck, they want to rebuild your home, they want to take away your hamburgers, this is what Stalin dreamed about, but never achieved,” he added.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) also ridiculed AOC’s Green New Deal as he came onstage.

“You know, with this Green New Deal, they’re trying to get rid of all the cows. But I’ve got good news — Chick-fil-A stock will go way up because we’re gonna be eating more chicken!” Meadows said, referencing the fast food chain that has earned conservative support for the COO’s opposition to gay marriage.

Video screens at the three-and-a-half-day conference sporadically displayed Ocasio-Cortez’s face throughout Thursday morning.

She was shown multiple times in the official CPAC video that slaps a number of left-leaning Democrats, including 2020 hopefuls Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker.

Another video, this one sponsored by the NRA, showed footage of the congresswoman dancing outside her congressional office, but darkened it, making it look more sinister. The video claimed that Ocasio-Cortez wanted to “disarm hard-working Americans, while giving those ‘unwilling to work’ our money.”

Striking a less hysterical tone, Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingraham implored the audience to take Ocasio-Cortez seriously.

“I take people like AOC seriously because she is the thought leader of the Democratic Party right now,” Ingraham told the crowd, pointing out how every 2020 Democratic candidate “jumps” every time Ocasio-Cortez says something.

Hearing of all the attention she was receiving, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “GOP defensively say, ‘we’re not scared of dancing women! Yet proceed to use footage of me dancing ‘with the color drained to make it look more ominous,’” she wrote, quoting observations tweeted by Washington Post journalist Dave Weigel.

“Spoiler: The GOP *is” scared of dancing women, because they fear the liberation of all identities taught to feel shame,” Ocasio-Cortez said.