NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Peggy Noonan: “Ocasio-Cortez emerges as a one-woman Committee to Re-Elect the President.”

What do I suspect The Squad may know now that they didn’t know then? That grandma has been observing them and sees what others see. She doesn’t mind that they’re hot, aggressive and ideological, but they don’t confine their fire to outside the tent. They attack moderates as sellouts, racists, child abusers.

And no one who disagrees with them ever operates in good faith. There is a disrespect there. They’re tough, they’re bringing it, not winging it; but they’re so immersed in ideology that they never give a thought to mercy. With Ms. Omar and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez especially, it’s all identity politics and the accusing finger—you’re criticizing me because you’re greedy, misogynist, classist. And they always claim victimhood—they receive death threats and are called bigoted things, people are mean to them.

People are mean to everybody.

AOC especially is not without skill and talent. She is energetic, determined, verbally fluid, has a gift for acting, for seeming ingenuous. She weeps when she hears tragic testimony at committee hearings. She feels for everyone. Well, for some people. Not for Mrs. Pelosi. “I think sometimes people think that . . . we have a relationship,” she said, slyly, to Mr. Remnick. “I was assigned to two of some of the busiest committees. . . . Sometimes I wonder if they’re trying to keep me busy.” Oh Einstein, they may be!

Plus some thoughts on Nancy Pelosi backstage, versus her “almost never not confusing” press conference persona.

Related: John Hinderaker at Power Line on the reaction from Democrats on being dubbed racists by AOC and Saikat Chakrabarti, her chief of staff. “Unbelievable? Why? This ‘weak argument’ is the one Democrats deploy on virtually every occasion. They just don’t like to see it turned against themselves.”

As the man said in the umpteenth remake of Godzilla, “Let them fight.”