AOC’s 90-Second Speech Was Not Evidence of a Democratic Rift With the Left

One of the biggest stories leading into the virtual Democratic National Convention was that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the party’s most popular leftist under the age of 78 depending on how you classify Elizabeth Warren, was to be allotted only 60 seconds of speaking time. Given the regular sass directed at AOC and “The Squad” by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the mini-slot was interpreted as another insult to the younger, more progressive, and less white cohort of Dems that the institutional party tends to take for granted...