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I get it. You're not a Centrist. You're a fringe Right Trumplican. That's cool. The REALITY in this country though is that most of us are Centrists who do prefer the center. You do you, Boo......but know that it's the Center that put Trump in his place in 2020....and it will be the Center that will put AOC in place if she ever rises out of her spot in the House. We only wish that you would do the same to the MTGs and other Trump disciples that have sprung up in the past 4 years. We don't have much faith that you will.....so you until you do, our political calibration has shifted a little to the Left. My advice to you...get away from the "OMGZ!!!!.THESE TRUMP BOAT RALLIES ARE THE REALLL AMERICANS!!!" circles you run in....and get out amongst the Center. If you had any intellectual honesty in your body....once you did that...you'd quickly realize how clueless your political beliefs in the Trump era have been.
DIRECT HEADLINE: How one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington lost his seat to a 28-year-old political novice in the most stunning political upset of the year
Eliza Relman Jun 27, 2018, 8:19 AM
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-won-beat-joe-crawley-2018-6
Ocasio-Cortez (an activist that supported Bernie Sanders ) ran on a deeply progressive platform, (pushing) for Medicare For All, a (comprehensive) federal jobs guarantee, and (expanded) immigrant rights.
Ocasio-Cortez's message (was) that women like her (and from her background) "aren't supposed to win," but ( the counter narrative was) that she wouldn't let anyone (or any establishment) stop her, (which) was particularly powerful (with voters).
Crowley ( a 20 year rarely challenged establishment incumbent) raised nearly $3 million for his reelection campaign — and spent about $1 million ( and still lost to the upstart)
Democratic (voting) strategists — and (even) Ocasio-Cortez herself — attributed much of her (upset) victory to her aggressive door-to-door ground campaign. ( Her supporters spent months flooding the streets, knocking on doors, and hanging signs )
"We won because... we had a very clear winning message (that people could relate to), and we took that (very) message to (all) doors that had never been knocked on before,"
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You push Orange Man Bad.
I discuss how AOC actually won her district and why the refusal of the establishment Democrats to embrace what AOC used on the ground cost them badly enough to endure four years of Trump.
You sound like an unhinged zealot that calls other people a bunch of zealots. But it's your free speech.
Try talking some actual AOC in the AOC thread and it's possible your witchhunt for Conservatives will take a backburner to some actual political discussion.