I may be crazy, but I think Pres. Trump should be nice to AOC and invite her to the White House for a high-visibility meeting.
First, it’s already baked into the cake that Trump will meet with adversaries, so he loses nothing. It would help to fracture the dems, but more importantly it would advance the narrative that the battle is not only between Right and Left, but between the Deep State and the rest of us.
I see AOC and President Trump as different sides of the same coin. They were both elected by people who are sick and tired of the DC establishment and want to shake things up.
The right succeeded in electing President Trump despite all odds. The left tried with Bernie Sanders but were thwarted by a corrupt DNC. Ocasio definitely represents the frustrated Sanders wing of the party.
While philosophically opposed on most issues, they are united in a shared loathing of the Swamp.
I think Pres. Trump should be nice to AOC and invite her to the White House for a high-visibility meeting.
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Good thought but I believe she would absolutely not meet with him. She is Alinsky/Marx all the way. Her sycophant followers would scream sellout and she would lose credibility. She is the “resister” in chief. If DJT made an overture to her she would immediately attack him as racist, sexist, homophobe who is too evil to meet with and is not the legitimate President