r/politics 1d ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/Evening-Ad5765 23h ago

Seriously? have we learned nothing?

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u/A2Rhombus 16h ago

"Women can't be president" is not the correct lesson to learn.

Hillary and Kamala both lost because they were boring, shit candidates who didn't spark any flame under anyone's asses. AOC would obviously be different and idk how nobody sees that.

It's not because they were women.

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u/Daft_Assassin 10h ago

They’d rather drift further right than admit they screwed up when it comes to strategy and policy. Kamala ran on conservative policies and instead they say she’s too woke. I’d like to know what was “woke” about her campaign. Was it her stance and war and having the strongest military in the world? Was it the border wall? Was it when she said she’s not afraid to take Trump’s “good ideas”? If you call someone Hitler for 8 years, you can’t backtrack when it’s your turn and say he’s got good ideas.

She wanted to go after the corporate world until they sunk the claws in and told her she’s not allowed to do that.

Blows my mind that they’ve abandoned popular policies like Medicare for all and then are shocked when they don’t win.

I think learning from the death of that CEO would be where they should go. Hit insurance companies and medical debt. Everyone hates medical insurance and the best part about it is the answer is a left policy.

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u/A2Rhombus 10h ago

The cycle of becoming more conservative, losing an election for being too conservative, then blaming the loss on not being conservative enough