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how did the guy with zero name recognition at the beginning of the primaries run on a cult of personality?
IDK man, how did AOC do it
Policy. They both won and will keep winning because people like socialist (socdem) policies. You can call either or both of them ineffective at getting policy done, or be skeptical of their intentions, but the reason they won is that they have a policy platform that actually addresses peoples concerns and living conditions.
Whose policies are those? They're not the DSA's policies. They're not any party's policies. There's not any coherent movement's policies.
They're their own policies attributed to themselves that they can flake out on or reverse at a whim.