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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

During a debate, AOC would smash any Government of Putin candidate. The problem lies with the Democratic Party.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

HELL YEAH THIS COUNTRY NEEDS AOC

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

My right-wing friend finds AOC hot so he might actually vote for her if she runs.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 hour ago

Right wingers love the idea of hate-sex

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

People in america still believe there is going to be an actual election in 2028?

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

We just going to post this in every thread from now on?

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

Zohran Mamdani is just the democratic primary if I understand correctly. He's not the mayor of New York yet.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 minutes ago

It's been assumed that whoever the democratic nominee is will win since Adams is extremely unpopular and so is the republican party in NY generally

Of course Cuomo running independent complicates it, and the democratic party not enthusiastically endorsing Mamdani certainly doesnt help. Then again, the party had a 30% approval rating last i checked, so maybe that actually helps....

But he's the most popular debut candidate since AOC, so he still has a very good chance.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago (33 children)

NGL I'll take any blue tie but we've already shown twice that Americans might actually prefer fascism over a woman in charge.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

While those are two possible points of data, there are a number of other factors that contributed to each Democratic candidates' loss vs. Trump.-

  • Both suffered from being establishment candidates in an antiestablishment era.
  • Both were only really willing to push to milquetoast progressive policies.
  • Both followed disappointing democratic presidents that promised a lot and delivered little, often due to their own party sabotaging attempts at major progressive reform.

I truly think that Democrat voters want real, progressive change (even if they find words like "socialism" scary) but most Democrat politicians aren't willing to anger their wealthy Third Way/Neoliberal/Abundance/whatever-the-fuck-they-want-to-call-themselves donors.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

If you want more data there is also Congress which is only 28% female, and historically there were far less. I think the sentiment I saw in a lot of republicans wasn't that they supported Trump all that much, but that they opposed Hillary and Harris.

What exactly makes you say Joe Biden was a better candidate than either as far as those bullet points?

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

She should run for the senate seat when chuck leaves office after he finally comes to his senses.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 minutes ago

is he up for reelection in 2028?? damn, i'd take an AOC Senator over another term of Schumer with a failed AOC presidency run and Trump still in the white house

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol -3 points 1 hour ago

She should run if you want JD Vance.

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