No, I agree with Shapiro.
AOC is very much being underestimated….
Now, that being said, JD Vance is AWESOME, and I believe he is going to beat her, but let’s remember how close that old hag Clinton came in 2016, and a senile old head of a crime family was POTUS for four years.
There is no doubt the entire Leftist coalition will vote Democrat if the DNC puts up an attractive female, brownish candidate - and AOC is just that.
Let’s face it - she’s attractive despite the memes showing her with giant teeth suggesting she looks like a braying donkey - she does not.
As for her message and her political skills; sure, her ideas sound like nonsense to us because Marxism is nonsense. But even if it’s Leftist nonsense to us, she does not do word salads, she does not lose her train of thought, she’s not the idiot she is portrayed as..
To me, she comes off as impassioned and articulate, though wrong about everything. But do you think a Democrat candidate being wrong about everything will stop the stupid 50% from voting for her? I don’t.
Shapiro is right.
We should not analyze the future in past political terms.
We must take into account the DOGE efforts and results. The critical factors are money and voters.
Fantastically and unimaginable quantities of money have been taken from the Progressive machine. The MAGA effort has permeated the Afro Heritage citizenry diluting the lock step voting practices. The assault on illegal immigrants is diminishing the numbers. That is going to continue until election day in November 2028.
As the primary factor, the loss of money to fund innumerable and unknown electioneering practices is a perhaps knockout blow. The whole of progressive strength is nourished by unimaginable amounts of stolen taxpayer money that is now gone.
The City States are all suffering from self wrought problems that can’t be resolved without tons of money. That money is gone.