• APassenger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can you point to an effective female federal politician who hasn’t had a shear campaign run?

    Duckworth?

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      1 year ago

      I mean, there will always be some smear campaigns in a politician’s past, but AOC has been a very, very prominent target. Like, anytime you see Fox News playing, they’ve always got a picture of her looking angry for the mandatory Two Minutes Hate. A non-negligible amount of people are easily convinced by repetition - AOC is their most common target, and has been their most common target for 5 years. She has a lot more antipathy built up against her than probably any other member of the Squad. AOC was their replacement for Clinton hate. Only Ilhan Omar is really comparable in terms of being used as a GOP boogeyman.

      And I mean, like I said, this doesn’t at all mean that I’m opposed to an AOC candidacy. In a line-up like we had in 2020, I’d’ve voted for her even over Bernie. Not over 2016 Bernie, though. But that doesn’t mean I’m optimistic about her chances.