Summary
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed Trump’s election win, urging Democrats to move past infighting and post-election rancor to focus on preparing for potential impacts of his presidency, such as tariffs, mass deportations, and censorship.
She criticized some Democrats for blaming the loss on “identity politics,” despite Trump’s campaign centering on white racial grievance and calls for white men to turn out. Ocasio-Cortez pointed to moderate voices like Reps. Tom Suozzi and Seth Moulton, who argued that supporting trans rights hurt Democrats, as misguided.
She encouraged people to engage in direct communication and join physical communities to combat despair and build resilience.
“You go high, we go low”
There’s a reason why the right manages to spread its message, it’s because they know the left won’t do shit about it.
Going low doesn’t accomplish shit - the problem is that previous the strategy wasn’t “they go low, we go high” - previously the strategy was “we fail to deliver any change that impacts everyday Americans”.
Going low doesn’t accomplish shit
Ahh. A statement in direct contradiction of the evidence.
Most recent data demonstrates that going low gets you the Whitehouse, the Senate, and the House. And going low for long enough gets you the judiciary as well.
I’m not saying there aren’t other ways to succeed: but going low is clearly an extremely viable strategy. It would seem to me that when you are losing as completely as Democrats have been for 30 years, you aren’t in a position to leave options that are shown to work on the table.
