my thoughts
Ocasio-Cortez isn't shallow. This guy kennedy is wrong. But I wish more people including those in the party of Andrew Jackson would admit how elections work. AOC wasn't some great legislator, she wasn't some champion advocate. She didn't have any successes as an advocate of high reknown. I live in NYC, I know exactly how she won. The white guy who was a democrat who had the seat, underestimated the demographic shift in his district. He courted the white vote in that district which no longer had the voting power. AOC correctly, very unshallow,very wise, courted the latin American vote which had become the majority by a distance. And she won. AOC is part of a number of elected officials in New York City or New York State who basically rided a demographic shift wave to success. They didn't need to be great legislators. This is part of Mamdani now. The problem is, once you get elected, you now need to be a legislator who gets results and in the current environment, that is a challenge. Because tribalism is locked in most legislative branches in the usa. So making laws is a challenge because either you need people from another party of governance to vote for you who will not or you need people from your own party of governance but a different branch to vote for you who will not. my comment
AOC isn't shallow. I concur @Rebeccablack the true problem the entire field of legislators in the usa has, is the current environment means any legislator who wants to make laws has to get votes from another party or another wing of their own party, both hard to come by https://x.com/Thetenner10/status/1966232498511433817
