NEW YORK CITY (AP) – In yet another triumph for the freshman Democrat political up-and-comer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s new book, “Economics for Dummies,” is now perched neatly atop the New York Times best seller list, with over 4 million copies sold so far.

During her interview, Ocasio-Cortez discussed her experience with economics and the inspiration for this book.

“I’m smart. Like, super-smart, OK?” said Ocasio-Cortez. “I have a degree in economics from Boston University. Do you have one? No. That means you’re a dummy. So in order to talk to you about, like, economics and stuff, I have to talk down to you, like I would to a dummy or the salesjerk who sold me my $625 black Manolo Blahnik stilettos and kept calling me ‘miss’ like my marital status was any of her business.”

Sales of the book are brisk and reviews generally positive. However, there does some to be some categorizational confusion for the work. Although Ocasio-Cortez insists she wrote it as “a manual for dumb people who want to get smart, like, like me,” and pitched its marketing toward university-level economics courses, most of the sales are coming from bookstores and Amazon.com, where the book is routinely categorized under “humor”.

While online reviews were generally pithy, such as “If you aren’t a dummy, this book will make you one,” reviews such as this one from Amazon were also typical:

“Brilliant satire of the ‘for Dummies’ series’s patronizing simplicity. The tongue-in-cheek self-seriousness of such sentences as ‘Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs‘ are the giveaway hints that even high school remedial econ flunkers will recognize as the smiling wink and nod of pretend idiocy the gives away the game with near Pythonesque exaggeration. Perhaps TOO exaggerated though, as no one could be this pig-ignorant of basic economics and still be smart enough to remember to breathe.”

Ocasio-Cortez herself, however, said that she was not actually aware of the “for Dummies” franchise. Rather, she chose the name out of the honest contempt she feels for anyone who would know so little about economics that they would come to her for advice.

To be fair, anyone who fits that description thoroughly deserves contempt. Assuming they exist.

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