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A point about this is it's a specific long-term strategy used by conservative media that worked on Hillary. It doesn't matter what AOC says or does, they'll give her negative coverage. They'll spend years doing this so when she finally does make a run for president their viewers will already have AOC=BAD baked in.
Hillary shot herself in the foot by holding repellent policies and abhorrent views even within her own party. She was pro-war well into the 2010s. She was Tough On Crime in the middle of BLM protest waves. She was chintzy and hyper-bureaucratic on public health care and education while she freely opened her wallet to mass surveillance and corporate bailouts. She demonstrated naked hostility to the LGBTQ community time and time again. She flaunted her wealth, constantly lied about her own historical record, surrounded herself with sycophants and scammers, and was the worst kind of sore loser.
That's why Obama kicked the knees out from under her in 2008. And that's why Donald Trump could casually outflank her on the left in 2016, by mouthing a few anti-war slogans, bullshitting about popular economic reforms, and hugging the Pride Flag. Hillary made the same stupid mistakes as Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 and Harris in 2024. She desperately pandered to the Republican Establishment while expecting everyone to the left of John McCain to reflexively bend the knee.
I'm glad Hillary lost. I'm just sad she had to lose in the general, rather than scrubbing out in the primary a second time.