enhanced_deficit
06-27-2018, 06:56 AM
Will the titanic NY election upset yesterday do longterm damage to neocon movement in NY/US?
Or this is short term symbolic blip and such "anti-establishment" candidates can be easily purchased by neocons/war crimes lobbies etc (as happened in case of "anti war" Barack Hussein Obama who was early on dubbed as "Iraq war punishment candidate")?
4 major lessons from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's titanic upset in New York
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Wed June 27, 2018
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180626221928-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-headshot-exlarge-169.jpg
(CNN)At first glance, the upset victory scored by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley (https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-new-york-14-primary/index.html) in New York's 14th District Democratic primary is no big deal for Democrats' chances of flipping the House in November. After all, the Bronx and Queens seat is overwhelmingly Democratic and has zero effect on Democrats' fight for the majority.
But that first glance is very, very deceiving. This isn't just about a single House race. This is about the struggle for the future of the Democratic Party -- both in New York and nationally. This is about the kind of candidate Democratic voters want. This is about the kind of leaders the Democratic Party will have after 2018.
In short: Ocasio-Cortez's victory is about a whole hell of a lot more than just a single strongly Democratic House seat. Below, four major lessons Democrats should take from her win -- the primary upset of the 2018 cycle to date.
1. The Democratic base is sick of the establishment
Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party in 2016 -- and the establishment's acquiescence to him in 2017 and 2018 -- put a massive spotlight on the divide between the GOP party leadership and the Republican base.
Meanwhile, overlooked amid the Trump furor, Democrats have been in the early stages of a civil war of their own -- between pragmatic establishment types and liberals infuriated with the Trump presidency.
That Crowley, the heir apparent to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, of California, could lose a primary to a 28-year-old, politically unknown and woefully underfunded Democratic Socialist speaks volumes about where the energy in the party is right now.
All you need to do is watch the two-minute bio video Ocasio-Cortez put out (https://t.co/A9Tjq3otKy) to understand a) where the party is right now and b) how terrifying that should be to the party establishment.
2. Politics punishes people who get ahead of themselves
3. House Democrats need some younger blood
4. Women rule
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-new-york-upset/index.html
CNN commentary not all objective but probably would sell well to democratic bases.
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Good riddance.
Shame on Dems that it took them 15 years to vote out a politician who had voted for the biggest blunder in US history (Iraqi Freedom War) even if he was a champion of our closest ally & only non-racist democracy in mideast.
Wonder how much role voters' disgust with recent massacre of civilians in open air camp (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?522238-US-embassy-in-Jerusalem-opens-Mon-Ivanka-arrives-Bachmann-apologizes-for-Jews-conversion-rem&p=6628676&viewfull=1#post6628676) in mideast with US tax payers funded weapons played in this election upset.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the insurgent firebrand who Tuesday toppled the No. 4 Democrat in the House of Representatives, is a strong critic of Israel who denounced the killings of Palestinian protesters as a “massacre.”
June 26, 2018 By Dave Goldiner
This is a massacre.
I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such.
No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protesters. There is no justification. Palestinian people deserve basic human dignity, as anyone else.
Democrats can’t be silent about this anymore. https://t.co/wJGATOtDsR— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) May 14, 2018 (https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/996009689312825344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Ocasio-Cortez, 28, stunned the political world by decisively beating Joe Crowley, a Queens powerbroker who had been mentioned as a possible future candidate for Speaker of the House.
With about 90% of precincts reporting, Ocasio-Cortez was ahead by 58%-to-42%, making Crowley the first incumbent Democrat to lose his seat this year.
“Especially in New York people say this is political suicide,” Ocasio-Cortez told Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuoKLLLpiuE) referring to her criticism of Israel. “But I had a lot of my constituents thanking me for taking that position. I had a lot of Jewish Americans who thanked me.”
https://forward.com/fast-forward/404159/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democrat-joe-crowley-israel/
Or this is short term symbolic blip and such "anti-establishment" candidates can be easily purchased by neocons/war crimes lobbies etc (as happened in case of "anti war" Barack Hussein Obama who was early on dubbed as "Iraq war punishment candidate")?
4 major lessons from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's titanic upset in New York
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Wed June 27, 2018
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180626221928-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-headshot-exlarge-169.jpg
(CNN)At first glance, the upset victory scored by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley (https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-new-york-14-primary/index.html) in New York's 14th District Democratic primary is no big deal for Democrats' chances of flipping the House in November. After all, the Bronx and Queens seat is overwhelmingly Democratic and has zero effect on Democrats' fight for the majority.
But that first glance is very, very deceiving. This isn't just about a single House race. This is about the struggle for the future of the Democratic Party -- both in New York and nationally. This is about the kind of candidate Democratic voters want. This is about the kind of leaders the Democratic Party will have after 2018.
In short: Ocasio-Cortez's victory is about a whole hell of a lot more than just a single strongly Democratic House seat. Below, four major lessons Democrats should take from her win -- the primary upset of the 2018 cycle to date.
1. The Democratic base is sick of the establishment
Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party in 2016 -- and the establishment's acquiescence to him in 2017 and 2018 -- put a massive spotlight on the divide between the GOP party leadership and the Republican base.
Meanwhile, overlooked amid the Trump furor, Democrats have been in the early stages of a civil war of their own -- between pragmatic establishment types and liberals infuriated with the Trump presidency.
That Crowley, the heir apparent to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, of California, could lose a primary to a 28-year-old, politically unknown and woefully underfunded Democratic Socialist speaks volumes about where the energy in the party is right now.
All you need to do is watch the two-minute bio video Ocasio-Cortez put out (https://t.co/A9Tjq3otKy) to understand a) where the party is right now and b) how terrifying that should be to the party establishment.
2. Politics punishes people who get ahead of themselves
3. House Democrats need some younger blood
4. Women rule
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-new-york-upset/index.html
CNN commentary not all objective but probably would sell well to democratic bases.
Related
Good riddance.
Shame on Dems that it took them 15 years to vote out a politician who had voted for the biggest blunder in US history (Iraqi Freedom War) even if he was a champion of our closest ally & only non-racist democracy in mideast.
Wonder how much role voters' disgust with recent massacre of civilians in open air camp (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?522238-US-embassy-in-Jerusalem-opens-Mon-Ivanka-arrives-Bachmann-apologizes-for-Jews-conversion-rem&p=6628676&viewfull=1#post6628676) in mideast with US tax payers funded weapons played in this election upset.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the insurgent firebrand who Tuesday toppled the No. 4 Democrat in the House of Representatives, is a strong critic of Israel who denounced the killings of Palestinian protesters as a “massacre.”
June 26, 2018 By Dave Goldiner
This is a massacre.
I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such.
No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protesters. There is no justification. Palestinian people deserve basic human dignity, as anyone else.
Democrats can’t be silent about this anymore. https://t.co/wJGATOtDsR— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) May 14, 2018 (https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/996009689312825344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Ocasio-Cortez, 28, stunned the political world by decisively beating Joe Crowley, a Queens powerbroker who had been mentioned as a possible future candidate for Speaker of the House.
With about 90% of precincts reporting, Ocasio-Cortez was ahead by 58%-to-42%, making Crowley the first incumbent Democrat to lose his seat this year.
“Especially in New York people say this is political suicide,” Ocasio-Cortez told Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuoKLLLpiuE) referring to her criticism of Israel. “But I had a lot of my constituents thanking me for taking that position. I had a lot of Jewish Americans who thanked me.”
https://forward.com/fast-forward/404159/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democrat-joe-crowley-israel/