Famed journalist H.L. Mencken once observed that the entire aim of politics is to keep the populace in a state of alarm by menacing it with imaginary hobgoblins. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s latest antics reveal that little has changed.

The economy is currently enjoying one of its better runs in modern history: a record 125 months of consecutive growth, record low unemployment, and a stock market that recently closed at an all-time high. But some critics still are not impressed. AOC complained that wages aren’t growing fast enough. “The Dow soars, wages don’t,” the New York Democrat said. She called it “inequality in a nutshell.”