In case you keep out of US politics (good decision), then you might have missed conservative trolls trying to take down Democratic congresswoman and millennial we all aspire to be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with this tweet.

The clip is part of a longer video the congresswoman featured in during her college days back in 2010 where her and some chums recreate the Breakfast Club dance to Phoenix’s infectious tune Liztomania.

‘Cause there’s nothing more frighting to conservatives that young people having fun and dancing.

The attempted smear backfired spectacularly with everyone from comedian Patton Oswald to Breakfast Club-er Molly Ringwald offering their delighted support.

Now, French band Phoenix has come out and tweeted congratulated Ocasio-Cortez on being the youngest congresswoman in history (and probably for reminding us all how obsessed we were with Liztomania).

Ocasio-Cortez doubled down, releasing another video of her dancing, this time as a congresswoman. So now that everyone involved has responded we can strike one up for ‘lovely things to come out of US politics in the last year’ bringing the grand total to one.

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