Quote (PlasmaSnake101 @ Oct 4 2019 11:18am)
The right needs to stop attacking AOC, it's just gasoline on fire. She actually makes some fair points policy wise, on things like corporate welfare and access to healthcare. She has far too much charisma for idiots to cry socialism and hope it destroys her.
she doesn't have enough power (lack of committee roles and lack of policy writing) and she doesn't have enough influence in her own party to be truly feared. but i don't think the Right attacking AOC is out of fear, it's an appeal to centrists.
the left did this for 50 years by claiming the GOP was the racist party by focusing on southern hardliner extremists in the party. and it's worked decently well.
i think branding the left as unrealistic on issues like climate change could be a decent political strategy, it elevates AOC but at the cost of elections going to the GOP elsewhere. imo.