NR: Is AOC the Democrat Party Future?

An article in the conservative (old time conservative – not Trump style) National Review. They sent it to me as an enticement to become a “premium” member of their website – this article would normally be behind their paywall. So I don’t know if the link will work but excerpts below the link.

If AOC Is the Democratic Future, the Party Is Even Worse Off Than We Think. There is no woke policy she doesn’t support.

… the problem isn’t a lack of organization per se, but the hangover of their dogged, dishonest support for a comprehensively failed presidency, joined to an irrational commitment to outlandish positions on cultural issues.

The Democrats shouldn’t be shocked that after insisting that Joe Biden was hale and hearty and fit to serve as commander in chief until January 2029, the public has a dim view of their party. The Democrats attempted to perpetrate one of the worst frauds on the American public in recent history, and then followed it up with another lie — that Biden’s overmatched emergency replacement, Kamala Harris, was joyful and impressive.

In a new CNN poll, the Democratic Party’s favorable rating is 29 percent — a record low going back to 1992.

In a new NBC poll, the Democratic Party’s favorable rating is 27 percent — a record low going back to 1990.

Detect a pattern?

Part of the reason for the dismal rating is that Democrats themselves want their party to be more confrontational with Trump and are dissatisfied. But the Democrats have taken a broader hit — in the NBC poll, only 11 percent of independents have a favorable view of them, and 56 percent unfavorable.

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In the fierce backlash against Schumer for saving his party another embarrassment, the left-wing congresswoman from New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is getting promoted as a potential primary challenger to Schumer, and even a national leader for Democrats. In the CNN poll, Democrats were asked which political figure best represents the “core values” of their party, and AOC narrowly led.

She has as good a claim to this title as anyone — and that’s the problem.

AOC is Kamala Harris, if the California Democratic hadn’t flipped-flopped away from all the fringy things she said in 2019. She’s Bernie Sanders, if the Vermont socialist were about 50 years younger and could plausibly appear on the cover of Vanity Fair wearing the latest fashion. She’s Mahmoud Khalil, if the Columbia University activist that the Trump administration wants to deport somehow managed to get himself elected to Congress.

AOC rejects the term “woke,” but there is no woke policy that she doesn’t support. She loved the neologism Latinx (“gender is fluid, language is fluid”) and still supports males competing in female sports (“trans girls are girls”). She’s never met an immigration restriction that she likes.

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Will Rogers once commented, “You’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best.” If their fervor to oppose Trump throws Democrats into the arms of AOC, they will test the accuracy of this proposition.