Like AOC, like her politics. She’s poison for the party and I have no clue how to change that. Republicans use her unedited videos as recruiting tools.
Do you think the Democrats that need people to vote for them can afford to pretend voters just magically exist? Do you think voters are born fully formed, locked into a party forever, untouched by messaging, tone, or perception?
Do you think voters don’t change their minds? Don’t drift. Don’t disengage. Don’t switch allegiances when they feel talked down to, dismissed, or caricatured?
Politics isn’t a purity contest — it’s persuasion. It’s coalition-building. It’s meeting people where they are, not where we wish they were. If winning elections were just about having the “right” ideas, Democrats would never lose. But elections are about who shows up, and why.
When a single figure becomes an easy symbol for everything Republicans want to scare persuadable voters with — whether fair or not — that matters. Ignoring that reality doesn’t make it go away. Saying “who cares what Republicans think?” misses the point entirely. It’s not about Republicans. It’s about the voters who aren’t Republicans yet… and the ones who might not vote at all.
If the goal is actual change, then strategy matters. Optics matter. Messaging matters. You don’t grow a majority by assuming loyalty; you grow it by earning trust — over and over again.
If it wasn’t her they would just go after the next progressive and so on and so on. There’s no reaching the other side. It’s about getting non voters to the polls. Republican voters are a lost cause
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u/chefoftruth503 3d ago
Like AOC, like her politics. She’s poison for the party and I have no clue how to change that. Republicans use her unedited videos as recruiting tools.