Asked about a potential US invasion of Haiti, @AOC stumbles through a statement opposing it but adds qualifiers that it’d be bad “right now” and “without any sort of plan.” She won’t outright reject it because her career ambitions are too great. pic.twitter.com/flbY677sg1— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) July 18, 2021
I think a huge part of it is that the politicians who did this before relied on the electorate going to sleep between cycles or just the fact that people didn't pay much attention to the left in general. Now that the brand of the modern progressives is being always online and constantly in the spotlight they can't bullshit hard enough to maintain it. You can see them try to mitigate by dodging outlets that would give even mild push back, but even the softballs are starting to fuck them up the longer this goes on.
Like it's not just AOC, Ro Khanna with his weird ass startup culture israel thing, Jayapal getting heated over Mariam Williamson asking for any kind of concrete plan, Cori Bush stumbling for a response when CNN ask why they don't vote as a block, etc. It's all going to break down.
I think a huge part of it is that the politicians who did this before relied on the electorate going to sleep between cycles or just the fact that people didn't pay much attention to the left in general. Now that the brand of the modern progressives is being always online and constantly in the spotlight they can't bullshit hard enough to maintain it. You can see them try to mitigate by dodging outlets that would give even mild push back, but even the softballs are starting to fuck them up the longer this goes on.
Like it's not just AOC, Ro Khanna with his weird ass startup culture israel thing, Jayapal getting heated over Mariam Williamson asking for any kind of concrete plan, Cori Bush stumbling for a response when CNN ask why they don't vote as a block, etc. It's all going to break down.