WGBH Dukakis Warns Democrats Exaggerating Ocasio-Cortez Victory Is ‘A Serious Mistake’ Dukakis, a professor at Northeastern University, also cautioned Democrats not to get into an ideological back-and-forth. “It seems to me that we ought to make sure we don’t get into these ridiculous intramural fights at a time when the goal has to be saving American democracy. I mean, that’s what’s really is going on here.”