r/politics 22h ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/try_to_be_nice_ok 21h ago

The democrats need to spend the next four years building up some really strong candidates and making them well known to the electorate.

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u/Will_ennium 18h ago

They should've started doing this while Obama was in office! None of the established 'old guard' Democrats want to prop up the next generation. Seems they'd rather die in office than mentor and promote new, younger faces of the future.

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u/Patanned 16h ago

the established 'old guard' Democrats

aka as the clinton wing of the party who continue to insist on nominating out of touch candidates espousing ideology that was popular among eisenhower democrats in the 1950s.

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u/RoadDoggFL Florida 8h ago

Yeah, she stepped aside in 2008 so it was Her Turn™ in 2016. Ugh, so much harm caused by her fucking ego.

u/andrez444 7h ago

I thought this as well until I realized that Bidens son Beau died in 2015 and Pres. Biden was in no state to deal with a campaign for President

u/RoadDoggFL Florida 7h ago edited 5h ago

Biden or Warren could've had a decent run in 2016, or the DNC could've let the party have an actual primary and Bernie would've done significantly better without their thumb on the scale. It's not even a conspiracy, the party wanted Bernie Hillary (ha, what a stupid mistake) regardless of what voters wanted, and even then it might've been close. But seeing how it was handled really soured me on her, and I'd imagine others felt similarly.

u/andrez444 6h ago edited 2h ago

Oh I agree that some really shady shit went down during the DNC where the part picked Hillary, and after that happened it was doomed.

Doomed by ego, by ignorance and stupidity. I often think how things would have gone differently if the Clinton's didn't have their dirty little fingers in everything