If Democrats Don’t Win Georgia’s Senate Seats, The Hardest Hit Will Be Their Socialist Squad
If the GOP holds on to the Senate, Democrats’ far-left base will be denied the presidency, a legislative agenda, and their chance to transform America — and they know it.
By Jonathan S. Tobin
November 10, 2020
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might be Republicans’ least-favorite Democrat, but at least she’s honest about Democrats’ failures in the 2020 election. The New York congresswoman confided her frustration to The New York Times over the weekend, and it’s clear the election results have left her in the dumps.
Other New York leftists took to the streets to engage in mass revelry about President Donald Trump’s reported defeat, but AOC doesn’t seem to feel like celebrating. As far as Ocasio-Cortez is concerned, 2020 will go down as a historic defeat for democratic socialism, and it’s a toss-up whether the congresswoman will mount a primary challenge to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in 2022 or simply walk away from the political establishment and “start a homestead somewhere.â€
Amid the media’s merriment in prematurely declaring a Trump defeat, many have obscured a fact that AOC has realized: Democrats performed dismally in congressional elections this year, resulting in dim prospects that any part of her radical agenda will be enacted in the coming Congress.
So long as Republicans retain their Senate majority, their fears of a Biden presidency and a Democrat-controlled Congress transforming America won’t be realized. Furthermore, a Republican Senate would relieve Joe Biden of any obligation to listen to the radicals who loyally backed him despite their misgivings about what they might achieve should he be elected.
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