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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 15 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

If she throws her hat into the ring I fully expect the DNC to sabotage her at every opportunity.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 minutes ago

Meanwhile, we all want AOC and Bernie. If Bernie wants to VP, I'm all in.

[–] berno@lemmy.world 2 points 9 minutes ago

Jefferies will never recover from the AIPAC Shakur nickname. Absolutely wrecked him.

[–] sveltecider@lemmy.ca 3 points 46 minutes ago

Nate Silver endorsed this polling in 2024? That makes me trust it LESS not more 😭

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I have zero hope she'll win the primary, but I'd bet money she'd win the general if she got to it. The next problem after that though is if she ends up being president in 2028, she'll probably not get jack shit done because of the newly massively gerrymandered congress, intrinsically anti-democratic senate, and actively hostile SCOTUS.

We'd see her win and the american left would get the largest blackpill ever as she gets fucked over and gets barely anything done, is blamed, and then we get Cyber-Trump in 2032.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

she’ll probably not get jack shit done because of the newly massively gerrymandered congress, intrinsically anti-democratic senate, and actively hostile SCOTUS.

Using the Trump precedence, she can ignore Congress and SCOTUS.

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Shes going to need to get really creative for that to work. Trump manages to do shit without congress because of corruption, corporate backing, and being nihilistic, impulsive, and being surrounded by yes men.

AOC would be entering a hostile environment and likely wouldn't be able to tame it, would try to be careful not to do more harm than good, and would be surrounded by well meaning but likely stifling voices of bureaucrats/proceduralists, scientists, and dissenting activists, etc. And she would try to actually listen to all of them, slowing her down and making her easy to undercut by snakes.

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