Why AOC should be next to lead the DNC
By Joe Concha, Opinion Contributor — 12/20/20 03:00 PM EST
As difficult as this may be to believe, the person who should be the next chair of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and President Trump have two very big things in common:
(A) lack of a filter
(B) exceptional social media prowess as a result
Those two items combined serve as the new road map for how politicians will communicate with the masses and, by extension, the media.
The rhetoric is blunt and unforgiving. And oftentimes, because Twitter serves as a platform for complaining rather than discussing actual solutions, a regular airing of grievances.
Which makes AOC the perfect politician in a country that loves a good complaint but where solutions to real problems are in short supply (outside of the "solution" of throwing money at the problem).
To that end, the 31-year-old Democratic socialist is exceptionally adept at telling you what's wrong with X, Y, Z and whom to blame for it. That, my friends, is what gets you more social media followers and traditional media coverage than just about anyone in Congress despite having been in the swamp for less than two years.
And with that comes enormous power.
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