在亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯成为国会史上最年轻的女性议员数日后，这位纽约市酒保兼民主社会主义者在华盛顿赞扬数百名气候活动家在南希·佩洛西众议员办公室进行的静坐行动。
Days after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman elected to Congress, the New York City bartender and Democratic socialist was in Washington praising hundreds of climate activists staging a sit-in at Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office.
“我只想让大家知道，我为你们每一个人感到骄傲，”奥卡西奥-科尔特斯对抗议者说。她呼应了众议院民主党人在气候政策上进一步左倾的诉求，这对同为民主党人、党内权力领袖的佩洛西构成了高调挑战。
“I just want to let you all know how proud I am of each and every single one of you,” Ocasio-Cortez told protesters. She echoed demands that House Democrats move further to the left on climate policy, a high-profile challenge to Pelosi, a fellow Democrat and the powerful party leader.
在过去的八年里，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯一直是改变策略的人——以往对这位激进左翼而言，这些做法曾显得难以想象。其结果是一场政治转型，反映了在华盛顿取胜的现实经验教训。
In the eight years since, Ocasio-Cortez has been the one to shift tactics—in ways that would have once seemed unthinkable for the firebrand leftist. The result is a political transformation reflecting real-world lessons about how to win in Washington.
这位37岁的议员已收敛其好斗风格，亲近建制派民主党人，并与其他民主社会主义者推动的部分极端立场——如废除监狱和警察——保持距离。
The 37-year-old lawmaker has tempered her combative style, cozied up to establishment Democrats and distanced herself from some extreme positions pushed by other Democratic socialists—such as abolishing prisons and the police.