Establishment Dems act like AOC and the Squad are fringe, and then they staff up using their people. This is endemic in the Biden administration, which is staffed with radical lefties, and now the Biden campaign.

Andy Crystal, who previously led research at The Problem with Jon Stewart and Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, will be the campaign’s research director.

Research director off a comedy show and off another show based on made up stories of Islamophobia.

Lauren Hitt, who most recently served as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) communications director, will be a senior national spokesperson for the campaign.

That means the Biden campaign will now speak with AOC’s voice.

Lauren Hitt C’13 has one of the most powerful voices in American politics, but it’s not her own.

Hitt is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director, meaning she is the primary spokeswoman, speechwriter, and media strategist for the US representative whose charismatic way with words has Washington insiders predicting she could be New York’s next senator or maybe even president one day.

Yet AOC’s aggressively progressive politics means that as adored as she is on the left, she’s abhorred by the right, while moderate Democrats worry her headline-making statements could scare away swing voters.

“It’s super challenging,” Hitt says. “But I like the challenge.”

Hitt quickly developed a reputation among Capitol Hill’s newly emboldened progressive community. When Rep. Cori Bush led a sit-in protest on the Capitol steps, it was Hitt who helped the group communicate the message, says Saed, who worked for the Missouri Democrat at the time. “I think that was one of the moments that really solidified her not just as a leader within the office, but frankly a leader within the entire movement,” Saed says.

Three years in, Hitt’s stretch on Capitol Hill is the longest of her career. She has no plans on leaving anytime soon, she says. But when, or if, she does, her friends expect she’ll go far.

“I will 100 percent not be surprised when Lauren Hitt ends up as a press secretary for the president,” Slusser says. “Like, I really look forward to seeing her behind that podium one day.”

That didn’t take long, but mainstreaming extremists is what Biden and what’s left of the Dems keep doing.