For some odd reason, deposed Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin, has decided during his sudden enforced retirement to become quite the presence on the electric Twitter machine.

Generally, in the annals of self-ownership, this has been the Louisiana Purchase. But then one of his tweets drew the eye of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Explaining tax rates before Reagan to 5th graders: “Imagine if you did chores for your grandma and she gave you $10. When you got home, your parents took $7 from you.” The students said: “That’s not fair!” Even 5th graders get it. — Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) January 15, 2019

And, well, this happened.

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Explaining marginal taxes to a far-right former Governor:



Imagine if you did chores for abuela & she gave you $10. When you got home, you got to keep it, because it’s only $10.



Then we taxed the billionaire in town because he’s making tons of money underpaying the townspeople. https://t.co/Wcnn2sEgek — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 15, 2019

The "abuela" makes it art.

Almost single-handedly, AOC has opened the question of raising the marginal top rate for billionaires and, implicitly, of rolling back the Reagan tax cuts that began the slide toward income inequality and tax injustice in the first place. And she helped make Scott Walker look like he doesn't know what he's talking about. And she has the conservative press falling all over itself in sweaty failure.

That's not bad for your first two weeks in Congress.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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