could not win nationally. I think Joe could.

and when the squad were elected and touted so much by the media before they even got a chance to get the lay of the land.. the right targeted them. She should take a cue from HRC and established herself..This one is just a stupid thing to say. All it does is give a lot of ammunition to the right. It does not hurt Biden in the least. She needs to learn which battles are worth the fight

I mean what was the point?

Think Sherice Davids
Her comments about madam speaker
Refusing to give HRC credit for CHIP

from someone who has been reading too much of her own press..

two party system. If you want to win an election you generally have to run on one of the two major party tickets.

In other countries that don’t use plurality elections ideological differences are sorted into separate parties.

I know it’s complicated , but if a former waitress can figure this out...

The Republicans are going to come after her hammer and tongs for being a communist. Well guess what, that would have happened anyway, but saying she would not be part of the national party of a leader of the party vetted by the most believed and beloved President of my lifetime.. if it were in different country, so close to an election just sets her up as the other! It was stupid.

U. S. House of Representatives Tip O'Neill said: "all politics is local".
And she’s been more of a ‘national entity’.

On election day, it's all about "What have you done for me?"

keeps doing this sh*t.. Democrats are going to start doing a universal WHOA with this.

There are two declared primary opponents already, with one other who hasn't formally declared:

Badrun Khan - declared
Fernando Cabrera - declared
Jose Velazquez - considering

When one's constituency is feeling abandoned or neglected, that can certainly be a powerful motivator to give the incumbent the boot and choose someone else. Let's hope for clean primaries that are clearly organized and scheduled.

Primary season is ratcheting up

in which multiple parties can field candidates and then form coalitions with other parties to support particular initiatives where they agree. It doesn't work that way here. If Democrats want to win elections they need to maintain their big tent, and AOC doesn't get to decide who belongs in the tent and who doesn't.

I dig AOC, however she's young and lacks an essential experience in party unity. Though I get that criticizing the Democratic party is hip and trendy among the self-described 'revolutionaries' (putting that term on a t-shirt though, does not a revolutionary make), there are negative, long-term consequences to doing so.

I don't want her to sabotage a bright future this soon into her career, and I sincerely hope she realizes sooner rather than later that Democratic statesmen are not her enemies but in fact, her own allies.

In other words, they have her back, it's time she has theirs.

Some need to learn the difference between an imperfect friend and a mortal enemy.

If he takes it to the GE - she's established with this statement that she's against him. That will increase his appeal to moderate independents.

Has gone completely to her head. She is wielding power that she does not have.

Pseudo intellectuals, pseudo revolutions, pseudo ideology.

Link to tweet

I'm thrilled that the Democratic Party is so broadly representative of the needs and aspirations of Americans.

Ocasio's not. Her statement that the Democrats' appeal is too broad, we're too diverse and too inclusive shocked me. It indicates a vast intolerance and contempt leading to rejection of the views of many millions of "not my kind" of Americans. She wants the vast majority of liberal and progressive Democrats (Like Biden and Obama! And me!) gone from her party. Go away! to the vast moderate-liberal majority who've created every progressive advance our nation has ever known. Leaving her kind.

However, it certainly explains how she could continue to support Sanders during and after he promised to illicitly overset the popular vote of all us undesirables in the last primary.

I'd already researched very early on and decided Sanders wasn't the right stuff for president, but about the time he started deceiving his followers about, ultimately, dozens of state party races being rigged against him, and promising to overset democracy itself, I knew he was the wrong stuff for me for any position.

And then of course he actually really did try to illicitly undo the collective decision, and with it the very right to decide of not just the 28 million Democrats who voted in the primary, but of all Democrats, who rightly believe it is their decision.

He's running again, and Ocasio's still with him.

....from the Justice Democrats website, at a time she was on their Board:

https://www.justicedemocrats.com/about

Hypotheticals may be of limited value.

The Democratic Party being a big tent is nothing new. For instance, in 1972 it was the party of George McGovern and the party of George Wallace.

George Wallace helped put me off populism for good.