Weakness becomes a threat - Trump and May demean idea of leadership

New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a world of grey or greyer men and women, radiates charisma and high-energy promise.

She exudes the kind of new-brush enthusiasm that might eventually drain that infamous swamp. Newly-elected to Congress at just 29 she, in recent weeks, turned an online attack to her great advantage. A faceless opponent tweeted a clip of a student-days Ocasio-Cortez dancing on a rooftop, implying she was a “clueless nitwit”. Recognising an open goal as quickly as Bertie Ahern did in his mercurial pomp, she responded, by politicising the botched ambush. She accused Republicans of believing that “having fun should be disqualifying or illegal”. She elaborated: “I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous,” she tweeted, along with a video of her dancing joyfully outside her new office on Capitol Hill.