As The Inquisitr reported, Shapiro has brushed off claims that he has an obsession with Ocasio-Cortez and argued that his comments are driven by policy debate. But as noted by one Twitter user at the time, Shapiro's publication, The Daily Wire, ran five different articles on the politician in the last 48 hours, and the conservative had tweeted about her over 20 times since the prior afternoon. The tweets, the commentator noted, appeared to be unprompted by any specific issue.
Nevertheless, Shapiro continues to make it clear that he does not support Ocasio-Cortez's political beliefs. In an op-ed for the Pittsburg Post-Gazette earlier this year, he took aim at the congresswoman's views on the ethics of billionaires, who she argued must give up their power and control to decrease worker exploitation. Conversely, Shapiro claimed that the progressive is advocating for "government control."
"Worker collectives won't do the trick. Only top-down government redefinition of the value of labor will," he said her argument suggested.