SUMMER READING: The inside-outside game, part four

SUMMER READING: The inside-outside game, part four

Poking the bear can build power, but it doesn’t build bridges. Today’s excerpt from The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy looks at how, during her first term in Congress, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez learned when to engage in combat — and when to play the inside game. Ocasio-Cortez’s strategies and tactics were very different than those of Bernie Sanders. As she built a reputation as a fierce…