Why every Republican should watch the AOC documentary, ‘Knock Down the House’

Published May 13, 2019 8:07pm ET



If Republicans want to win more elections in 2020, they should watch “Knock Down the House.”

Since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., won a seat in the House of Representatives last fall, the GOP has criticized her for her radically leftist views, from her Green New Deal to her affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America. But whatever Republicans or centrists believe about her policies, they can’t deny that her campaign worked. They should take notes. The Right likes to claim that “facts don’t care about your feelings,” as Ben Shapiro puts it, but voters don’t care about facts. They care about stories. And Ocasio-Cortez has a great one.

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