The dream for DNC strategists for a while has been baiting the Republicans into going to some mythic far right position where a chunk of their base breaks up and can be scooped up permanently by the Dems with Clintonesque "third way" politics thus cementing their long-term power and financing.
Besides that fact there is the fact they are a bourgeois party for the benefit of the capitalists, a relief valve and way to constrain leftward movement and water it down and bring it back into the fold to be smothered.
Anyways so to them AOC is not their future, she's just an annoying part of their currently large tent, the direction they want to go and will go with the help of pliant, Trump-traumatized liberals is rightward in the name of preventing another Trump ever again.
The dream for DNC strategists for a while has been baiting the Republicans into going to some mythic far right position where a chunk of their base breaks up and can be scooped up permanently by the Dems with Clintonesque "third way" politics thus cementing their long-term power and financing.
Besides that fact there is the fact they are a bourgeois party for the benefit of the capitalists, a relief valve and way to constrain leftward movement and water it down and bring it back into the fold to be smothered.
Anyways so to them AOC is not their future, she's just an annoying part of their currently large tent, the direction they want to go and will go with the help of pliant, Trump-traumatized liberals is rightward in the name of preventing another Trump ever again.