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[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I have zero hope she'll win the primary, but I'd bet money she'd win the general if she got to it. The next problem after that though is if she ends up being president in 2028, she'll probably not get jack shit done because of the newly massively gerrymandered congress, intrinsically anti-democratic senate, and actively hostile SCOTUS.

We'd see her win and the american left would get the largest blackpill ever as she gets fucked over and gets barely anything done, is blamed, and then we get Cyber-Trump in 2032.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

she’ll probably not get jack shit done because of the newly massively gerrymandered congress, intrinsically anti-democratic senate, and actively hostile SCOTUS.

Using the Trump precedence, she can ignore Congress and SCOTUS.

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Shes going to need to get really creative for that to work. Trump manages to do shit without congress because of corruption, corporate backing, and being nihilistic, impulsive, and being surrounded by yes men.

AOC would be entering a hostile environment and likely wouldn't be able to tame it, would try to be careful not to do more harm than good, and would be surrounded by well meaning but likely stifling voices of bureaucrats/proceduralists, scientists, and dissenting activists, etc. And she would try to actually listen to all of them, slowing her down and making her easy to undercut by snakes.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Good, carry on AOC!

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[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 101 points 1 day ago (14 children)

The democratic party funded by AIPAC will rather see Trump for a third time than having AOC as president.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 176 points 1 day ago (86 children)

Many believe Harris lost in 2024 because voters viewed her as too progressive, and that Ocasio-Cortez could face the same problem.

Who’s this “many”? Kamala lost because of her Joe Biden neolib policies, her hard heel-turn to the right, and her “nothing will change, we are the most lethal military” stance on the Middle East.

Instead of reassuring the masses who she thought were a shoe-in, she tried to appease the “I’ll never vote for a black woman” crowd, which alienated the former and would never have worked on the latter.

It was either the greatest miscalculation ever, lead by Third Way focus groups, or someone tugged the leash. Either way, with the GOP rat fucking that was almost certainly happening to some degree.

Pretty shitty of Newsweek to pretend that progressive policies are unpopular with a majority of Americans.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

She literally campaigned with Liz Cheney. Too progressive? Lmao no one believes that shit except brainwashed magats.

Crazy how every rag shifts between blaming gaza voters for her loss while simultaneously claiming Harris was "too progressive".

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

its almost like all legacy media is inherently fascist

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