Yes, there were plenty of misogynists who voted against her on the basis of her being a woman.

Or, y'know, because they're Republicans. Anyone with misogyny as an overriding political belief system isn't an available vote for Democrats. They don't just want a male leader, they want a misogynist that will validate their feelings and shield them from consequences. And the Republicans will always provide that to them, with or without a penis in the pants.

that clusterfuck of a candidate

While I would have preferred a progressive, much of the backlash was absolutely fascist propaganda (and misogyny)

Hearing him talk in an American English accent would probably disarm at least half of the casual racist crowd.

100000%, yes.

Is that a serious question?

I think the opposition will find or invent levers to work against any candidate, even the most normative one they can find. The identity mud-slinging followed the propaganda, not people's sincere beliefs. And the propaganda followed the opposition to socialism.

I'd worry about strong policy messaging before how palatable the human being is to the worst among us, because I don't think the latter's a winnable fight.

Hey show me some stats to chew on. I am not out here stating facts just my gut feeling. Why I lead with an apology.

I'd love it if it were true, but my personal experience leans towards El Sayed getting a statistically significant proportion of the votes any woman wouldn't.

That's a problem that needs to be addressed, but like, I am sorry ladies. It needs to be addressed after we secure your right to vote/right the ship meaningfully.

I digress. I'm here for it. I just worry.

One requirement is to call themselves a democratic socialist, that would be my guess as the main reason the local DSA chapter wouldn't officially endorse. I know the chapter still did a whole lot when it came to ground game tho

Is AOC currently DSA?

This has been my biggest critique of AOC for the previous 4 years. After her tussle with Pelosi and getting banged up in that, she started taking only much safer media pieces. She stopped going on basically any media where journalists would challenge her, and also only took "forum" type questions where she had the mic and the questioner didnt.

So there was a solid 3, 3 and a half years of that, and she got soft. She lost her edge from 2017. But Bernie brought her back out with their combined tour. And since then she's been sharpening her edge. She still wont take contested media spaces. But she's doing better.

Ro Khanna has been far better at taking controversial media. Same with El Sayed. AOC needs to sharpen her game here.

I'd be so happy with 2 years of El Sayed / AOC leading to 2 years of AOC / El Sayed. At least at this moment in both of their track records and given the current state of the US.

You ask me this in 2022, I'm here for AOC 100%, In just sour on how my party treated Kamala. I don't trust them to do AOC justice in a campaign after that.

Im sorry but misogynists are not voting for a guy named Abdul El-Sayed either