Filmmaker Michael Moore is back ― and this time, he has a supporting cast of rising progressive candidates. One of those is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congressional candidate who unseated a powerful Democratic incumbent in the primary this June. Trump’s election, as well as dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party’s leadership, has catalyzed a wave of progressive candidates in this year’s midterm elections. The resistance ― the true resistance ― is not coming from the Democratic Party or from the liberal establishment,” Moore told HuffPost last month. “We’re not ready to give up on the party,” Tlaib tells Moore in the film.

Source: Huffington Post September 12, 2018 20:26 UTC