House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley’s loss at the hands of a millennial socialist barmaid in New York has shocked Democratic Washington.

But Republicans merely seem amused by the lopsided victory that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won over Crowley’s amply funded campaign. They assume, with good reasons, that candidates like Ocasio-Cortez, the sort that reject private ownership of business and want to abolish immigration enforcement and even law enforcement altogether, cannot win on a national scale.

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