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When you’re a captivating, brilliant, strong, funny, young, and bold woman in power, there’s a certain subset of humanity (*cough cough* GOP white dudes) who feel weirdly threatened. Ever since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her election to Congress, critics (*cough cough* GOP white dudes) have gone out of their way to try to take the wind out of her sails and in doing so, they’ve only made her stronger.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may have inadvertently won an army of new fans on Thursday after a video of her dancing leaked and went viral—footage that right-wing Twitter users had apparently circulated in a misguided attempt to undermine her. A right-wing Twitter account that shared the clip—which has since been viewed more than 8 million times, and has unintentionally elicited widespread messages of support for the new congresswoman—blasted out, “...High School video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- Congratulations New York!” Another conservative Twitter account also shared the clip, calling Ocasio-Cortez a “clueless nitwit,” with others likening her to Sandy from the musical Grease.
The latest example of their failed attempts at tarnishing her image might be the best — someone “leaked” video of Ocasio-Cortez in college doing some downright adorkable dancing — quelle horreur, right?
Footage of the brand-new Bronx congresswoman from her college days, gleefully busting some of Ally Sheedy’s moves from The Breakfast Club, surfaced yesterday as Ocasio-Cortez was being sworn into office. As though happily dancing were somehow… wrong? Or unappealing?
Quite the opposite. She’s 1000 percent adorable and perfectly dorky.In the old video, Ocasio-Cortez and classmates recreate an iconic dance scene from the 1985 film "The Breakfast Club." The video sparked debate online, with some calling it "scandalous" and "bizarre" and others applauding Ocasio-Cortez's dancing skills.
In her own response, Ocasio-Cortez dances and lip sings to the Edwin Starr song for just 11 seconds before running into her office, smiling."I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous," she wrote in the caption. "Wait till they find out Congresswomen dance too! Have a great weekend everyone :)"
Her new video was retweeted nearly 100,000 in under an hour.
