If Ocasio-Cortez manages to pull off an upset against Crowley, it would be a story of the complacent establishment taking voters for granted. It would be the story of how the Democratic Party is getting pulled to the left. It would be the story of how it’s not just progressive policies that are reshaping the party, but also people of color.
Though Ocasio-Cortez is decidedly to the left of Crowley, there’s no doubt that Crowley has been a champion of progressive policies. If Crowley were to lose, it would be a shakeup not just of the policies that Democrats support but how they go about getting elected.
Crowley could be in a similar situation to Cantor — a strong fundraiser that suddenly found himself knocked off by an insurgent candidate who is running on someone who isn’t a creature of Washington.
Until now, Democrats have seen big money in politics as simply a deal with the devil that had to be made. Democrats are so often outspent by Republican mega-donors that they viewed courting big-dollar donors and corporations as just part of creating a level playing field.
But if one of Democrats’ top fundraisers and likely successor to Nancy Pelosi can be toppled — and that’s a big if — perhaps Democrats need to rethink that deal.
If Crowley manages to emerge unscathed, well, the message will likely be that those big-dollar donors are just the cost of doing business.
Good Insider Baseball info, here. A Bernie Bot is taking on the 4th highest ranking Democrat in Congress. :)
Let’s hope the extreme nutball wins.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Eventually the Spanish speaking peoples who have colonized our country are going to want their own representatives.
The Democrats who have been figuring on using them for a permanent majority will be surprised when they are supplanted by the La Raza party.
That’s a distinction without a difference...............
The Kook Socialists have taken over and will not win general elections.
And so it begins ... white elected officials in the Democrat party are going to be extinct.
Crowley sounds one cynical dirtbag—be a shame if he got outflanked on the left. ;-)