I read that someone called Pete Hegseth who does something on Fox (really fake!!) News has joined his voice to the chorus of reactionaries who are straining and lying in order to find fault with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Hegseth has denounced her raising the minimum wage for her Congressional office staff, and with a voice from the twentieth century has called this step “socialism and communism on display.” 

I would like to be able to tell Mr. Hegseth that Joe McCarthyisms are no longer a part of our political discourse, but alas, they are there, floating in the sewers and cesspits of America. But I do take heart at the massive expenditure of right-wing commentators’ air on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She really frightens these gas-bags and their listeners, because they know that they are being tried in the balance and found wanting.