Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Methodically Demonstrate How Profoundly Flawed America’s Campaign Finance Laws Are

There’s a reason why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a target for conservatives. The youngest woman ever to be elected to Congress, the freshman lawmaker brings to the table bold new progressive ideas, charisma, whip-smart intelligence, and she looks great in red lipstick to boot.

Take, for example, this scene from a congressional hearing earlier this week, in which Ocasio-Cortez posed a serious of “rhetorical” questions in the form of a lightning round game. “I’m going to be the bad guy, which I’m sure half the room would agree with anyway,” she joked. “And I want to get away with as much bad things as possible, ideally to enrich myself and advance my interests, even if that means putting my interests ahead of the American people.

This five minute clip was captured for posterity by the popular Twitter account NowThis News and quickly gained over 15 million views.

Ocasio-Cortez then proceeded to expose the dark world of payoffs. Corporate PACs from industries such as fossil fuel and healthcare tend to invest in those industries and then push laws that benefit those industries, thus increasing the value of the investment.

And finally, she pointed out, as easy as it is for lawmakers to get away with these type of schemes, it’s even easier if one happens to be, say, President of the United States.

The dismantling was breathtaking, to say the least, and the majority of Twitter seems to agree.

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