Why Biden’s Retro Inner Circle Is Succeeding So Far
Two dominant storylines had emerged from the 2018 midterm elections. In several safe districts, mostly in in urban areas, a number of younger, more left-wing candidates had defeated incumbent Democrats in primaries and then retained the seats for the party in the general election. The most notable example was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the then 28-year-old former Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer who defeated Joe Crowley, a 20-year incumbent twice her age, in a New York City primary. AOC beat Crowley by 4,100 votes. She now has almost 6 million Twitter followers.
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At the same time in 2018, in a number of Republican-held swing districts, moderate Democrats defeated liberal primary opponents and went on to flip the seat for Democrats. Perhaps the best example was Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer from Northern Virginia who first beat a progressive challenger in the primary, then defeated Dave Brat, one of the most conservative House Republicans and a Tea Party celebrity.
Two prominent freshmen House Democrats who mark very different paths for the party: Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger (top), who represents a congressional district that Trump won in 2016, and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (bottom), whose Queens-based seat is one of the most heavily Democratic districts in the nation. | Getty Images
Both AOC and Spanberger represented a major political disruption,
but in the media, and especially on Twitter, which is not used by 78 percent of Americans, AOC came to define the purported direction of the Democratic Party. The issues of the AOC left soon defined the early months of the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination as candidates outbid each other with calls to abolish ICE, decriminalize the border, embrace the most robust version of the Green New Deal and, most of all, support “Medicare for All.”
(We flip red districts blue
y’all flip blue districts blue,
, which one is a winning strategy
)
........Ignoring the noisy activist left and its megaphone on social media was perhaps the most consequential decision Biden made at the start of the campaign.
What happens in campaigns—and it’s been exacerbated by Twitter and social media—is that you get a cool-kid conventional wisdom, and then at some point, voters get read into the process and voters quite often behave differently than the cool kids do.”
Exciting liberal candidates fueled by college-educated whites have a long history of disappointment in Democratic presidential primaries: Gary Hart in 1984, Jerry Brown in 1992, Bill Bradley in 2000, Howard Dean in 2004.
All of those candidacies were defeated by a more establishment Democrat who put together a coalition of the white working-class and African American voters. Biden’s advisers have long insisted that those were useful models for understanding 2020, while advisers to Warren have often scoffed at the idea that that bygone era of politics has much to teach in the new Democratic Party.
(White rich liberals the coli’s pushing)
(y’all ain’t one of us for real)
The whole theory of this race has been that Joe Biden is going to announce and then he’s going to collapse,” said a top adviser. “ ‘We’re gonna run him out of the race. He’s going to have to pay a price for 40 years of votes. He may look strong, but that’s just because he has high name recognition but there's nothing there.’
And that has just been a fundamental miscalculation.”
just ran across this this morning....she's the only one still pushing the message. Haven't seen anyone use this slogan in months.
Keep them around. 
