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mmanire.bsky.social • 51 days ago

https://open.substack.com/pub/andywyatt/p/aoc-surges-in-moderate-and-republican?r=1ri6my&utm_medium=ios

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bluelion70.bsky.social•51 days ago

Is this just because some pro-Hamas hecklers said that she was responsible for genocide the other day?

mfbrodie.bsky.social•51 days ago

Economic populism can work until the elite start in with the racist messages. And they will. They will pull out the socialism/communist card. I hope we see that we have more in common than we think.

jgraydonbarnes.bsky.social•51 days ago

Yes. This is it.

AOC is connecting because she understands that the American dream is broken.

That there was a time when if you* worked hard, you could build a life in America.

*white people

That’s not true any more.

jgraydonbarnes.bsky.social•51 days ago

That’s the reason “Make America Great Again” works as a slogan.

It harkens to a time when the American dream was still true*

*for white people