亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯成为当选国会议员的最年轻女性几天后，这位纽约市调酒师出身的民主社会主义者就在华盛顿赞扬了数百名在众议员南希·佩洛西办公室静坐的气候活动人士。
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.
“我只想让你们所有人都知道，我为你们每一个人感到多么自豪，”奥卡西奥-科尔特斯对抗议者说。她呼应了要求众议院民主党人在气候政策上进一步向左转的呼声，这是对同为民主党人且权势显赫的党派领袖佩洛西的一次高调挑战。
“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.
在此后的八年里，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯成了改变策略的一方——其方式对于这位曾经火爆的左翼人士来说，一度似乎不可想象。其结果是一场政治转变，反映了关于如何在华盛顿取胜的现实教训。
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岁的议员已缓和了她好斗的风格，与建制派民主党人拉近关系，并与其他民主社会主义者推动的一些极端立场保持距离——例如废除监狱和警察。
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.