Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sure can pick ’em! Check out what her former campaign senior aide and intellectual peer Waleed Shahid had to say about what democracy means to him:

.@AOC's former senior aide, @_waleedshahid: "Democracy should mean taking power and wealth and making sure it belongs to everyone." pic.twitter.com/TwkDNEtVl9 — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 14, 2019

With guys like that whispering in her ear, no wonder AOC comes off like an aspiring authoritarian nutjob.

That’s as rotten a word salad as we’ve ever seen.

Socialism. The new democracy. — 11s and 7s (@11s_7s) March 14, 2019

“Democracy should mean communism” is a hell of a take — JAC (@michcusejoe5) March 14, 2019

How can one speak of appropriation of wealth from private citizens by the state so casually and pretend that such acts are just? Such authoritarianism is absolutely horrifying. — Alex Macias (@AspConservative) March 14, 2019