AOC has 11 million followers, a netflix documentary, and was on the cover of for Vanity fair. We are told "don't worry, she has no influence."
MTG (who is nuts) won @ single house seat in a crowded primary and the GOP establishment in exile says that MTG now owns the party.
MTG (who is nuts) won @ single house seat in a crowded primary and the GOP establishment in exile says that MTG now owns the party.
https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1356684730935173123
I don't dislike @DavidAFrench or @secupp, but I wish we could have some perspective. Yes, MTG is a nutty gasbag. That's bad.
But that misses the point: AOC is a cultural powerhouse who gets a pass from media on her radicalism becsise she shifts the overton window to the left
But that misses the point: AOC is a cultural powerhouse who gets a pass from media on her radicalism becsise she shifts the overton window to the left
Using your radical fringe to move the overton window is an intentional strategy that comes out of left wing activist literature.
It's easy: amplify and echo the voices of those who take a position more radical than what you want so you look moderate by comparison:
It's easy: amplify and echo the voices of those who take a position more radical than what you want so you look moderate by comparison:
They are very explicit about this and how it works. The fact that the right allows this to occur is a travesty.
Btw the left explicitly says policing your own side is a losers gam. This is why they don't call out AOC when she fabricates things.
But they raise hell about MTG
Btw the left explicitly says policing your own side is a losers gam. This is why they don't call out AOC when she fabricates things.
But they raise hell about MTG
Now, MTG is nuts and ought to be primaried. However, allowing @secupp to declare that MTG owns the Republican Party is, to be frank, entirely irresponsible and an utter abdication of leadership.
Nothing empowers MTG like "serious" journalists telling people that MTG runs the GOP
Nothing empowers MTG like "serious" journalists telling people that MTG runs the GOP
This needs to stop. The way it stops is having perspective and not holding a double standard. No more "we have to be better."
No.
One standard for everyone.
One standard.
Period.
No.
One standard for everyone.
One standard.
Period.
And that means AOC, Ilhan Omar and Marjorie Taylor Greene can all be held to a single standard.
Truth. Not ideological purity. Not trying to look respectable. Truth.
So, one standard for all. That's my rule.
/fin
Truth. Not ideological purity. Not trying to look respectable. Truth.
So, one standard for all. That's my rule.
/fin
PS/
@DavidAFrench has a good point if this is what he means. Conservatives have given AOC a *LOT* of free media. So I should acknowledge that if that's what he meams it's a very good pointm
@DavidAFrench has a good point if this is what he means. Conservatives have given AOC a *LOT* of free media. So I should acknowledge that if that's what he meams it's a very good pointm
https://twitter.com/BigKevSexyMan1/status/1356718000771125252?s=19
Sorry about my typos, I'm on my phone and my thumbs are fat 🤷♂️
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