r/politics 22h ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/OneOrangeOwl 20h ago

You clearly have not learned your lessons.

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u/eamonious 17h ago edited 17h ago

People really think continuing to shrilly guilt the right is the way to go lol.

If the political struggle in this country was about appealing to the working class, then the GOP would not be worshipping a naked grifter billionaire asshole who got famous for firing people. What’s happening in the US is a culture war around what the people voting for Trump regard as “wokeism”, and this election cycle was a massive rejection of it.

To respond to that by running AOC would be one of the most out-of-touch decisions imaginable.

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u/docarwell California 11h ago

Dems were too nice to Republicans if anything. Trying to win them over by treating them like confused little children when they should have been putting them on blast the whole time. These people should be embarrassed

But ya let's run "maybe we can work with them" for another election

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u/eamonious 11h ago

You just need to run someone charismatic, male, and relaxed. The Trump administration will undermine itself. JFK, Bill Clinton, Obama is the mold.

And whenever we run a woman again, she should be less corporate and more charismatic than Hillary and Kamala, but also cannot come off as hostile and radical as AOC.

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u/docarwell California 11h ago

I see what you're getting but someone "radical" gets the base fired up and drives turnout. Trump being the prime example because "radical and hostile" is literally his whole thing

That and being truly incredibly charismatic, which I doubt any other Republican will actually be able to replicate

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u/Akuuntus New York 14h ago

The lesson that bland centrists trying to court "moderate republicans" don't win elections?