“AOC is too mainstream” is not an opinion held by any majority of any electorally viable group in any neighborhood in america, more people believe the moon landing was faked than believe this
Eh, I suspect in practice "this socialist is too mainstream" is a political gift of a narrative to AOC, and every member of the Squad should line up and ask outlets like Bloomberg and NYTs to publish articles like this about them
This feels like Elizabeth Warren 2.0 where online contrarians hijacked her politics for their own agenda without actually looking into what their actual politics were.
These candidates like Warren and the Squad and Bernie to some extant were always more symbols to these contrarians rather than caring about them as actual elected officials.
This may be an aside but it’s definitely hard for people in Portland, let alone out west, to relate to the area she represents. It’s physically like the size of St. John’s and Portsmouth combined but, y’know, it’s Queens. You walk two blocks, you encounter a massive slice of humanity.
Perhaps I’m in Is_This_Anything.txt territory but I don’t think people get that she actually has a home base and is well-known as Being Good at Responding to Constituents. Contrast with Hillary, whom people barely associated with New York but had a D next to her name, so game over, right
I truly appreciate the local intel. I have been to the city but never set foot in her district. (Plus, I’m leaving the ignorance up to keep the record correct.)
I get why articles like this get written -- most readers will find the perspective totally alien, so it's intensely surprising that people holding this belief system live in the same area code as people who think she's lefter than Lenin.
What I wonder is, if such articles get written, do a certain number of people reading the article just assume that "Oh, this must necessarily be a large and important group of people, or else I wouldn't be reading about them at all"?
