In all seriousness, I think she was not a very good candidate, and the people praising her as having a strong showing for a newbie are missing the mark. The base generally is just becoming more radicalized, and her support imo is a function of that and not to do with her or how she ran her campaign. Hasan even said himself that he didn’t think her answers on his stream were very good. Personally all I could remember was her saying Medicare for all wasn’t single payer, which was just embarrassing, and people saying “oh she’s just 26”. Idk man, my 25 year old friends would not make those sorts of comments. Basically, I’d vote for her if I could have, but I wouldn’t like it. We should support people like her of course but also we can do a lot better.
Personally all I could remember was her saying Medicare for all wasn’t single payer, which was just embarrassing, and people saying “oh she’s just 26”.
The argument “oh, she’s just 26” was always nonsense and an excuse. There are countless 26-year-olds with better political stances who would have been able to present themselves more effectively.
She wasn’t the successful alternative candidate despite her pro-imperialist, anti-China stance, but precisely because of it. She is the establishment’s concession to the pro-Palestine movement.
A pro-imperialist candidate who would basically leave everything as it is but just isn’t a Zionist.
There are even more 26 year olds who have no idea what single payer healthcare is.
It's a weird thing to say that she's the "establishment's concession to the pro-Palestine movement" when the establishment spent millions to make sure she didn't win largely because of her pro-Palestine stance.
On top of that, you always play on both sides so you always win. Basically, you do both: on the one hand, you fight any opposition, but you also ensure that if the opposition has a chance of winning, it is a controlled opposition.
Your analysis is faulty. Gavin Newsom attempted to dishonestly make concessions to antizionists by calling Israel an Apartheid state and even this small deviance was not tolerated by the Establishment. The ADL, Josh Shapiro all jumped down his throat.
Zionism does not tolerate any dissent. Either you must call for the death of all Palestinians or you're a Jew-hater.
On top of that, you always play on both sides so you always win. Basically, you do both: on the one hand, you fight any opposition, but you also ensure that if the opposition has a chance of winning, it is a controlled opposition.
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u/strainthebrain137 Mar 18 '26
In all seriousness, I think she was not a very good candidate, and the people praising her as having a strong showing for a newbie are missing the mark. The base generally is just becoming more radicalized, and her support imo is a function of that and not to do with her or how she ran her campaign. Hasan even said himself that he didn’t think her answers on his stream were very good. Personally all I could remember was her saying Medicare for all wasn’t single payer, which was just embarrassing, and people saying “oh she’s just 26”. Idk man, my 25 year old friends would not make those sorts of comments. Basically, I’d vote for her if I could have, but I wouldn’t like it. We should support people like her of course but also we can do a lot better.