The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mountaineer on December 06, 2018, 02:51:17 pm
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Why The Right Should Start Taking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Seriously
Underestimating and villainizing a candidate won’t end well. Just look at how the left treated then-candidate Trump.
Jesse Kelly
Dec. 6, 2018
Earlier this week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put up a tweet so mind-numbingly stupid that simply calling it “factually incorrect†would be an insult to the word “incorrect.†As is to be expected in the social media world, folks on the right ripped the incoming congresswoman to shreds for it.
Here were some of the typical responses: “This is factually incorrect!†“We cannot have someone this stupid in the government!†“This is what happens when we elect someone with no experience.†“Sure, this message is popular. Too bad it’s all wrong.â€
Take a moment and look at those responses again. Do they look familiar? They are the exact same arguments the politico class made against then-candidate Donald Trump for two straight years, right up until the point he carpet-bombed Hillary Clinton on election night.
Yes, the tweet was incorrect. Yes, it would be nice if the people in our government had some actual knowledge about the things they talk about. Still, it is critical for folks on the right to avoid the mistakes made by the left. We must learn from how they treated (and treat) President Trump and endeavor not to make the same mistakes.
Do not underestimate this woman, and do not think your savage mockery of her stupidity will be an effective tool to stop her. It won’t. ...
Read the entire article at The Federalist (http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/06/right-start-taking-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-seriously/)
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The problem is not only this moron but her ignorant followers who will continue to elect those whose policies are antithetical to the Constitution.
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The writer is an idiot. Mocking her to stop her? WTF. We don't want to stop her. This space cadet is the best thing to happen to the GOP in 20 years.
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She is the face of the idiotic Millennial. They are the largest generation of Americans we ever had. She should be taken seriously.
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If leftists like AOC are our future majority of representation, we're screwed. If that's what America wants, they deserve what they get.
Which will be misery, if not worse.
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You can't fix stupid. But apparently you can elect it to congress.
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Alinksy would say that the most effective weapon against AOC is continual, over-the-top mockery. (Yeah, I had to read his Rules in grad school.)
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The writer is an idiot. Mocking her to stop her? WTF. We don't want to stop her. This space cadet is the best thing to happen to the GOP in 20 years.
Yes, she's an idiot, but she has a vote in Congress. She can impose her ideology (Marxism) on the rest of us by virtue of her lawmaking power.