NY14 is a Democratic safe-seat, meaning whomever gets the Democratic nomination there automatically ends up in Congress. In 2018, @AOC trounced Joe Crowley, a 10-term, banker-lovin' DINO who was thought to be unassailable.
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NY just had 2020 primaries, and AOC a primary challenge: Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former registered Republican who hates Medicare and Social Security, and whose campaign raised vast sums from private equity looters and other garbage people.
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Choosing Caruso-Cabrera as their standard bearer was a spectacular act of contempt and hubris on the part of the finance sector. Not only did she not articulate a single policy (!), but she has a history of writing books calling for the abolition of the Department of Labor!
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Other gems from her literary oeuvre: a demand for MORE offshore tax-havens: "Freedom and democracy are best secured when banking secrecy and tax havens exist."
Contrast this with AOC's brilliant performance in shredding finance industry criminals in Congress!
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Contrast this with AOC's brilliant performance in shredding finance industry criminals in Congress!
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The finance industry truly made the primary race a referendum on plutocracy, impunity, inequality and corruption...
...And they lost.
Badly.
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...And they lost.
Badly.
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Despite being grossly outspent and outgunned, AOC slaughtered Caruso-Cabrera at the polls.
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The victory tells us two things about the current moment:
1. The time of plutocratic rule is coming to an end.
2. The plutes do NOT understand that.
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axios.com/aoc-primary-ch…
The victory tells us two things about the current moment:
1. The time of plutocratic rule is coming to an end.
2. The plutes do NOT understand that.
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