Perhaps AOC's great contribution is to show just how possible it is to change the conversation, and thereby shine a light on how Democrats inability to do so for so many years in many case represents an unwillingness to do so.
AOC doesn't have some sort of super-powers. She's just got principals.
Nothing against her—she's very talented—but I think what she's doing is easily replicable just by standing for something real and working for it, and refusing to back down from it or accept bad framing.
Nothing against her—she's very talented—but I think what she's doing is easily replicable just by standing for something real and working for it, and refusing to back down from it or accept bad framing.
Doing these simple things are politically powerful tools that should be used all the time.
Refusing to back down is as valid and effective a tool as compromise.
Idealism is just as valid and import as pragmatism.
They should be employed every time they're appropriate.
Refusing to back down is as valid and effective a tool as compromise.
Idealism is just as valid and import as pragmatism.
They should be employed every time they're appropriate.
I mean, look how terrified AOC is making conservatives. They're obsessed with a freshman congresswoman, and definitely scared. Just by doing these simple effective things, she's baffling people.
Like they've never seen something like this before.
Like they've never seen something like this before.
Again, she's very talented, and very gifted at this. Much respect.
But what she's doing is absolutely replicable. We see other freshmen Democrats doing it as well. I dare hope there's a whole wave of new leaders coming.
But what she's doing is absolutely replicable. We see other freshmen Democrats doing it as well. I dare hope there's a whole wave of new leaders coming.
And I dare hope there's a whole reservoir of veteran leaders willing to learn how to use tools they haven't handled as much.
We'll need them, too.
We'll need them, too.
