Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Mumbles, Reagan was very appealing to the masses and seemed to make sense to swing voters, especially ones frustrated with the government's various failures in the 70s.

AOC has tons of extreme and ill-informed ideas which don't play well with middle-ground voters. Even if she excites some additional young people to vote at a higher rate, she will lose more swing voters compared to a more traditional Democratic candidate.

A young, exciting candidate isn't a bad idea, but it has to be one who is intelligent, informed, and non-extreme. AOC is the clueless, idealistic college student whose ideas won't play well with mainstream America, especially when they come from a place of ignorance.

You don’t get it. “Middle ground voters” never were the the folks she is going to help her fellow Dems rally to the polls. It’s about reaching and rallying the millenials. AOC may say things from a place of ignorance, but it doesn’t matter if the people she appeals to are just as ignorant, or ignore her mistakes because they believe that she is “one of them”. Because that use of tribalism is what has brought the GOP much success at the polls despite the tons of dumb shit they have said over the years. Christ!!! The GOPers with the strongest pull at the polls say jaw-droppingly stupid things about the age of the earth and dinosaurs being alive at the same times as humans, shit that signals their fielty to fundamentalist Christians belief, who come out in droves to vote for them.

Also, when Reagan first won the White House, most political observers, and many within his party, thought he was “extreme”. Hell! George H.W. Bush called Reagan’s economic plan “voodoo economics”. And he was right! But enough of the public was fooled by the nonsense he was spouting, in large part because of his personality.