Dan Crenshaw is the GOP’s version of the Left’s Ocasio-Cortez

While Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a darling of the Left, feted in the media and soon in Hollywood, a true American hero, patriot, and conservative freshman lawmaker named Dan Crenshaw is her polar opposite.

The Texas conservative and former Navy SEAL with multiple combat tours has just begun his first term in Congress, the same as New York’s Ocasio-Cortez. And while she cultivates new socialists, he’s out to win converts to the Republican brand.

“Our biggest weakness is messaging, I think … Getting people excited, making conservatism cool again,” Crenshaw, who was wounded on his last tour and nearly lost both eyes, told the Washington Examiner.

“I love digging deep into policy, but then thinking a lot more strategically on how to message that to people my age, people who aren’t generally voting Republican. Somebody besides our base every once in a while,” Crenshaw noted.

“That’s what I think about all the time, and I think that’s where I’ll find my niche on any issues.”

In recent weeks he made an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” after he was insulted by cast member Pete Davidson who made a reference to an eye patch the former SEAL has to wear to cover a lost eye.

In a comedic appearance, the two discussed — lightly — political differences and both pledged to continue reaching out to all Americans, and Davidson apologized.

Since then, Crenshaw has tracked Ocasio-Cortez’s rise in popularity, questioning her policy ideals such as taxing top earners at 70 percent, providing free college, universal health care, and other schemes that he believes — rightly so — are simply unaffordable.

He’s even challenged her to debate her ideas.Â “I think the proper way to even address someone like Alexandria is to simply ask her the questions that you wish journalists would ask her,” Crenshaw said in an interview with Turning Point USA, a conservative activist group, at a Student Activism Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday.



