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Democrats Reject Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Top Oversight Committee Post (www.breitbart.com)
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Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) soundly defeated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to become ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, multiple reports indicated Tuesday.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They need to maybe move to the right slightly on social issues, but the Democrat Party's biggest issues lie in their messaging. They're political karens. If the mainstream left stops focusing on divisive identity politics and shifts towards more positive messaging about ways to affect change on things most Americans care about--like lowering the cost of living, increasing wages, reducing crime, increasing the quality of healthcare, etc.--they will have a winning formula. Especially in the face of more Trumpian politics, which don't lean into that in a way that the majority of Americans find appealing (MIHO; he's popular, but it's pretty hard to find someone who likes how he tends to state his positions most of the time).

Democrats also don't seem that clear on positions they care passionately about either. On abortion, for example, what's their exact position? There is consensus on the left that infanticide is bad and abortion is acceptable, but there doesn't seem to be clear unity of exactly what limits should be placed on abortion. The right was pretty clear with what they wanted on the issue: Roe v. Wade overturned. If you have consensus on an issue like that, and communicate it clearly, that goes a long way. For example, codify first trimester abortions at the federal level.