Her bully pulpit is smaller, and her punctuation is certainly better, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez behaves almost exactly like President Trump in one respect: She acts like the media are the enemy of the people.

The former bartender and current New York congressional candidate took to Twitter recently to criticize a report on the migrant caravan approaching the U.S. from the direction of Honduras. And then, Ocasio-Cortez ever so casually implied that the reporter was aiding the rise of white supremacy and abetting violence in the process. It was the anatomy of the perfect digital smear: