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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday warned of an “authoritarian expansion of power” by the Supreme Court after it released several controversial opinions in it’s last week of the…

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[-] Eisenhowever@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

How exactly is AOC remotely comparable to trump?

[-] Trebach@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I think the point is that having a Democratic candidate that far to the left would push centrists towards voting for a Republican, and there are a fair few of them like Trump.

[-] theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Did you not read what I wrote? I said that AOC as the Democratic candidate means the Republican candidate has a much clearer route to win - she's a candidate to appeal to the Democratic faithful, not one for the swing voters.

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