Democratic (Party) Direction

Emily Sirota winning in CO too, very good night!

so excited about ocasio cortez

this country's going so far to the left you're not going to recognize it

― difficult listening hour, Monday, September 18, 2017 5:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

congratulations house minority leader Steny Hoyer

This video of @Ocasio2018 seeing the election results live on NY1 is wonderful. And nice @DemSocialists t-shirt in the background. Thank you @nycdsa for helping to make this happen!!! pic.twitter.com/GRNYY0GlZv

— Stephanie Palumbo (@SJPalumbo) June 27, 2018

Steny Hoyer’s still around?!

thread to Dems

Here’s what I saw in @Ocasio2018’s campaign—and get ready for some complicated inside baseball now: she talked to poor people and oriented her campaign toward the issues they care about. pic.twitter.com/ZXoodWe8Hy

— Ben Tausig (@datageneral) June 27, 2018

Ha, good for Ben. He was at my college radio station for years.

And it's a freaking landslide, lol. Great news to wake up to.

must be some relief for ye alright

Nah, it's not relief, it's a nice surprise. It's like a Danish football win: An unexpected surprise from someone I don't really like but am still rooting for.

This photo is from Nov. 14, 2017. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, was then working as a bartender.

Less than a year later, she defeated the likely next Speaker of the House, and will almost certainly be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress

this is truly inspiring

It's so strange, it's almost as if talking to people about issues that matter to them - especially to people of color, or poor people, or people otherwise taken for granted by the Democrats - gets results. Or at the very least, change.

Hmm.

BTW. Crowley's concession is how it should be done: dedicate "Born to Run" to the person that kicked your butt, then give her a full-throated endorsement.

I want to congratulate @Ocasio2018. I look forward to supporting her and all Democrats this November. The Trump administration is a threat to everything we stand for here in Queens and the Bronx, and if we don't win back the House this November, we will lose the nation we love.

— Joe Crowley (@JoeCrowleyNY) June 27, 2018

This thread is funny.

WIDGETVILLE, OH -- As his second cup of coffee cooled, Joe Sixpack grimaced. The Democratic Party that had elected "that socialist lady in Queens," he said, had left him behind. A lifelong Democrat, he now planned to join the Federalist Society.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 27, 2018

Nah, it's not relief

I believe darraghmac was addressing Americans, you choad.

Congrats to Slate and NY Times on making the news headlines about Crowley losing and not Ocasio-Cortez winning.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, June 26, 2018 10:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And AP...

BREAKING: U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley defeated by young challenger in Democratic primary in New York.

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) June 27, 2018

rather sweet thread from corey robin

1. Woke up and remembered the news about @Ocasio2018's victory last night. Called my 10-year-old, who's away this week, to share the news. A tween who begrudgingly went door-knocking in the hot sun, flashing her charming smile just to get a vote, finding out that it all paid off!

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) June 27, 2018

A good interview:

"We won because I think we had a very clear winning message and we took that message to doors that had never been knocked on before," says 28-year-old political newcomer Ocasio-Cortez on her win in NY's 14th District Democratic primary https://t.co/QPoCbqeFNr pic.twitter.com/CiEnZD3Ry0

— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) June 27, 2018

Can't believe AP couldn't even be bothered to capitalize Young Challenger's name.

Yung Challenger

That CNN interviewer had some trash attitude.

v funny to see joy reid tweeting last night "the whole political journalism world is doing a crash course in ocasio-cortez tonight" its like nah good morning though

I see that twitter is aflutter with calling Ocasio-Cortez an anti-semite because she spoke out about the killings of Palestinians. Lovely.

that shit ain't gonna fly in jackson heights

let the disgruntled waste their money on pappas so he can get 30% instead of 20% or whatever

Acknowledging the personhood of Palestinians is always going to prompt someone to call you an anti-Semite, tbf.

goddamn what a fucking asshole

PELOSI dismisses results last night as just one district. “Not to be viewed as something” larger.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 27, 2018

nevertheless, she shrugged

Conservatism of establishment dems shining through.

lol p sure Pelosi has access to more polling data/inside baseball info about Dem prospects than anybody here

stop defending her, just this once

stop pretending she's an ineffectual right-wing shill and not, like, an actual expert manager of a very large caucus just this once

She's a shithead for tweeting that right now.

er saying that right now

if she's got a failing it's that she hasn't groomed a younger generation of leadership to succeed her (lol Steny Hoyer), but if she were to step aside there would be a huge power vacuum and internecine squabbling would ensue that would likely fracture the caucus into something more closely resembling the incompetent GOP, which can't even marshal enough votes to pass its own bills from its own majority - is that what you want? not an ideal outcome for leftist priorities.

xp

her comment still sucks, nagl to dump on a win that fires up your base

I do think there's a risk of overstating the meaning of the victory. She had amazing on the ground organization, she's a great candidate, and she ran in a progressive district. Not every district can have an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I can acknowledge that. And anyone who wants to be another AOC needs to focus on on-the-ground organization yesterday, it's about more than just adopting the Bernie platform.

that flyer upthread with her platform on it would look great in the hands of pretty much any candidate tbf

Beals lost NY-19 bad on the same platform. He was kind of a lackluster candidate running in a crowded field.

even if she can't be bothered to voice a full-throated endorsement of AOC's socialist critique or w/e, it would be pretty easy for her to say some boilerplate thing like "i've known joe crowley for many years and am proud of his great work on behalf of his constituents. i join him in congratulating alexandria ocasio-cortez, who speaks passionately for a whole new generation of democratic voters; i wish her success in november and hope to work with her on a range of critical issues that all americans share, from health care to reforming our broken immigration system" or whatever.

"i've known joe crowley for many years and am proud of his great work on behalf of his constituents. i join him in congratulating alexandria ocasio-cortez, who speaks passionately for a whole new generation of democratic voters; i wish her success in november and hope to work with her on a range of critical issues that all americans share, from health care to reforming our broken immigration system"

uh, this is like verbatim the text of her statement. lol @ cherry-picked Sherman quote designed to stoke maximum outrage from an innocuous comment about the larger electoral playing field.

OK that's fair

haha okay fair enough, i only had the tweet to go on there

Honestly anyone who thinks that this somehow weakens the Democratic Party should take a good long look at the GOP and what happened to them since the Tea Party insurgency. HINT: they now control all three branches of government and most states.

and they still can't pass bills

thinking the results of an admittedly surprising primary battle are going to weaken the democratic party is some peak nyc-centrism

they have control over one branch (judicial) by virtue of the fact that one half of the legislative branch (the Senate), being the institution least prone to high rates of turnover and its own internal pressures, has been largely immune to the Tea Party insurgency

and the Senate still can't pass bills either

xp

that wasn't very clear - what I was getting at is that it's not some Tea Party wingnut running the Senate and packing the courts with Federalist Society minions, it's fucking Mitch McConnell, as establishment a GOP figure as there ever was.

and McConnell has steadfastly marginalized and openly fought with the Tea Party wing of his Senate caucus - Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and hey let's throw in Rand Paul for good measure, these guys are not running the Senate, and they aren't always reliable votes for McConnell. Generally they are an annoyance to him.