There are others as well, but these two are the brightest stars, I agree. (I’ve been an AOC fan since her first campaign, and I have been so impressed with Jasmine these past few months!)
That would be my preference: the Democratic brand is pretty well tarnished in the eyes of many progressives and independents. But a new party has to have wide popular support if a third party candidacy is to be viable. Alexandria is VERY smart, so I trust she’ll make the correct call.
Can you imagine what the right will do to her public persona if she becomes a threat to them. She is a member of the squad. A self proclaimed socialist. The people in the middle decide elections. I like her but she is too far left for me. On a national stage she is poison for the democrats.
Independents (and many Democrats) complain that they can’t tell the parties apart because candidates are advised to “run to the center” in the general. That’s the same conventional wisdom that got us Trump x2. People want change, and if it’s not obvious, the Democrats have failed to deliver on that.
Knock his a** out the box. His time is up. I'm so looking forward to congresswoman Crockett's run for a senate seat one day. I love the thought of women taking these seats because they have no fear. They are for the people, period. This is why I love Congresswomen Waters and Pelosi. They don't play
No dispute from me about that, however, I would rather have her right now instead of Jeffries. Jeffries is weak. I'm a retired Army 1Sgt (1978-2000) and one thing my twenty plus years of service taught me was, "anyone can be in charge, but not everyone can lead." Jeffries is a desk guy.
100% agree about Jeffries, but recall that it was Pelosi who picked him exactly so he wouldn’t rock the (donor) boat and so that she could continue to weird power behind the scenes (e.g., during the push to dump Biden).
I just shared your response with my wife and said, I saw this response coming from someone and I love it. I love it because anyone who is seriously engaged in our (Democratic) political discourse would have made mention of this. I intentionally failed to mention it because it's true.
Yeah, the caping up for Pelosi has always been weird to me when she’s always been as bad as Schumer and the like when it comes to shutting down progressives and telling us to just “wait until next time”
Again, I don't disagree with either statement but right now at this moment. I'd rather have Pelosi than Jeffries. Jeffries is a pencil pusher. He's a twitter. He plays it safe like Schumer. Right now, we need infantry soldiers. Pelosi is infantry. So too is Crokett and AOC.
Be interesting to see how much power and pressure that certain retired female who still has many in the D-Congress in her clutches has left to prevent that. Or if she’ll finally, finally retire to tend to her beaten up husband.
I admired her for the positive force she was for very long. But once she started blocking younger, strong personalities, in particular AOC, I saw her as afraid of losing power. New blood so needed for the good of a party in dire need of contenders against forces led by Evangelicals, the oligarchy.
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I love AOC!!!
They fight like I want to fight.
If this party actually wants to win in any long term way again, they need to dump these old, corporate Dems.