Señor Research Scientist, an NPC at the Hertie School in Berlin 🇩🇪 via Princeton, Mannheim, Edinburgh and a bunch of other ivory towers that will probably be billiard balls and decorative boxes by the end of the decade.
Reminder: in any space of moderately high dimension, filled with people taking positions more or less at random in it, there is, to first approximation, nobody in the centre. Sure, you can project them into some subspace and they'll land in the middle, but that's not where they are.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has emerged as one of the Democratic Party’s leading voices. But some worry she will turn off the centrist voters needed to win competitive races.