AOC Says Dems Lost in Virginia Because They Didn’t Run Far Enough to the Left — But That’s Actually ‘Good News’

I  have never agreed with AOC on anything until now. I agree with her 100% and I think the Democrats should take her advice in every election coming up in 2022. She has analyzed the election in Virginia and has determined that the reason the Democrats lost was not that they want boys in the girl’s restrooms, or that they oppose the teaching of Critical Race Theory or even over the draconian lockdowns and mask and vaccination mandates.

They lost simply because they weren’t radical enough. They should make this a national campaign. They could do commercials with slogans like, “This is not your grandpa’s communist party”,  “I’d walk a mile to make love to a camel”. or even “I want to be a commie, just like my mommy.”

They could run commercials of Minneapolis burning and at the end, they could have Ilhan Omar say, “Hello, I’m Ilhan Omar and I approve of this riot.” At their national convention in 2024, they can sell antifa and BLM t-shirts with pictures of those groups’ favorite Democratic candidates.

Ocasio-Cortez said:

“On the election front, I actually think we have good news as well. I know that Virginia was a huge bummer. And honestly, if anything, I think that the results show the limits of trying to run a fully, 100% super moderated campaign that does not excite, speak to, or energize a progressive base, and frankly, we weren’t even really invited to contribute on that race.”

.@AOC finds a silver lining in Virginia election losses.

“I think that the results show the limits of trying to run a fully 100% super moderated campaign” pic.twitter.com/NjjiQQ5uU7

— John Gage (@johnrobertgage) November 4, 2021

From The Blaze

Ocasio-Cortez went on to blame the party’s supposedly inadequate response to “race-baiting” from the right.

Saying “little” or “nothing” about race-baiting only “demoralizes the base,” she argued, adding that “silence” on these issues also cedes “white swing voters” to the Republicans.

The progressive lawmaker mostly stopped her criticism there, though, recognizing that the party needs to be united in order to pass President Joe Biden’s massive “Build Back Better” social spending package.

.@AOC then blames moderate Democrats for losing in part because they enabled “race-baiting” by the right. pic.twitter.com/6WDBdcYtGF

— John Gage (@johnrobertgage) November 4, 2021

It’s safe to say Ocasio-Cortez’s argument is well outside the mainstream. Many pundits blamed the Democratic Party’s losses in the commonwealth on Americans’ dissatisfaction with the party’s drift to the radical left.

In Virginia, it’s likely that voters were particularly disenchanted with the left’s push for race-based curriculum, extensive COVID-19 lockdowns, and transgender-affirming policies in schools.

Democratic strategist James Carville blamed “stupid wokeness” for the Democrats’ peril on Tuesday, arguing “these people need to go to a woke detox center or something.”

Steven Ahle