AOC claims Democrats’ ‘incompetency’ led to down-ticket loses

Despite winning the Presidency the 2020 election did not provide the Democrats with the blue wave in the House and Senate that they had hoped for and now there is going to be a battle for the heart and soul of the party between the more moderate Democrats and the alt-left Democrats.

Despite Nancy Pelosi still being the Speaker of the House–at least for now–I do not think I am going out on a limb to state Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the voice of the party and she is not happy. She is upset that the Democrats did not run farther to the left and claimed that embracing the defund the police movement and the green new deal did not cost the Democrats in the election. Actually she does not believe they embraced those positions with enough vigor.

In fact she believes it was incompetency which led to the lackluster results in the down-ticket races and is warning Joe Biden that he had better embrace the alt-left agenda or they could lose the midterm elections. Here is more:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called the Democrat Party “incompetent” for not placing progressives in top positions, warning former Vice President Joe Biden that if he does not select far-left people for top positions, the Democrats will lose big in the 2022 midterm elections.

Ocasio-Cortez told the New York Times that she sharply rejected the notion that progressive messaging around the Green New Deal and the Black Lives Matter movement led to the loss of congressional seats this election cycle.

“There’s a reason Barack Obama built an entire national campaign apparatus outside of the Democratic National Committee,” she told the Times. “And there’s a reason that, when he didn’t activate or continue that, we lost House majorities. Because the party — in and of itself — does not have the core competencies, and no amount of money is going to fix that.”

Already thinking about the midterm elections and the new President has not even been sworn in yet! She is obviously jockeying for position and she is looking to make sure the younger and newer voices have a large influence in the direction of the party. This sounds like somebody who might be auditioning for the Speakership when the new Congress convenes in January…

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium