Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has become the Right’s favorite laughingstock over her two months in office. A quick look of headlines from Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire, for example, describes her ideas as “stupid,” claims that an insult went “whistling over her head,” and oddly compares her to a meme from Dr. Phil. These three were just from the first page of articles tagged with her name when I wrote this.

Conservative joke-crackers should beware: Ocasio-Cortez has established herself as a force to be reckoned with, and her so-called “radical” ideas should be taken seriously lest they take hold — a lesson taught by the Overton window.