As opposed to… A straight, white, old, rich, cis-gendered, moderate male? That was our last president, and he didn’t get reelected. They’ll attack and demonize and exaggerate no matter what. The “appeal to both sides” approach has failed spectacularly, every single time. The only options left are to fight for progress, or roll over, and ignore as millions of people are harmed.
I know what I’m choosing…
People keep saying that the Republicans have a magical ability to sink a politician by “demonizing” them in order to convince themselves that Hillary Clinton wasn’t a shitty candidate.
They know that any charming or well funded democrat needs to be shat on years in advance of any presidential ambitions in order to make whatever groaning pork mound ends up on their ticket stands a chance
Senator Ocasio-Cortez has a nice ring to it.
Almost as nice as “the first female US president: President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”.
The GOP (and some Democrats) have been demonizing her since day 1. It would be a major uphill battle cause they know how to start the messaging early.
As opposed to… A straight, white, old, rich, cis-gendered, moderate male? That was our last president, and he didn’t get reelected. They’ll attack and demonize and exaggerate no matter what. The “appeal to both sides” approach has failed spectacularly, every single time. The only options left are to fight for progress, or roll over, and ignore as millions of people are harmed. I know what I’m choosing…
People keep saying that the Republicans have a magical ability to sink a politician by “demonizing” them in order to convince themselves that Hillary Clinton wasn’t a shitty candidate.
Day 1 is 7 years ago. Hillary was being demonizing in 1992 and ran for president in 2016.
They know that any charming or well funded democrat needs to be shat on years in advance of any presidential ambitions in order to make whatever groaning pork mound ends up on their ticket stands a chance