“I actually think the more important advice that I would give would be to my incumbent colleagues, which is, you will create a self-fulfilling prophecy by deciding who these young women are before you’ve met them. And if you are already panicking and sending little messages in your group chats about how these people need to be reined in and tamped down and shown their place, you are creating the antagonistic dynamic that we do not need.”— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), on MSNOW, to incumbent Democratic lawmakers worried about progressives.